What happened?

July 9th?

[Sinner_G]

Couldn't get on WMW half the day (middle european time). Is it me or was the site down?

[topr8]

dunno but same here in the uk

[Marcia]

I couldn't from Los Angeles either. I suspect there was some kind of network problem, because with tracert I timed out one hop outside of LA.

Boy, talk about withdrawal! It was a rough few hours there.

[Sinner_G]

>Boy, talk about withdrawal! It was a rough few hours there.

True, I had to actually WORK! Can you imagine?

[Marcia]

>True, I had to actually WORK! Can you imagine?

Sinner, I couldn't get a thing done! It rendered me totally unable to function. It's now almost 7 AM and I couldn't go to sleep, just in case. Don't ask "just in case what," it makes no sense.

[edited by: Marcia at 1:50 pm (utc) on July 9, 2002]

[Rugles]

I started to panic and was showing signs of withdrawl.

But now it is fine........ aaahhhhhhhhh.
That's the stuff.

[Mardi_Gras]

That was rough. Woke up, headed upstairs for my fix before going to the office - AND I CAN'T PULL UP THE SITE! It took a while to calm down. :)

Couldn't pull up Westhost either - guess they were having a significant outage.

[added]Wow - no posts for six hours - our poor friends in Europe were shut out all night - must have been rough![/added]

[Mike_Mackin]

It is not looking too good out there today.

The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100. Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.

Most of the world is in the 40's [internettrafficreport.com]

[Sinner_G]

And Europe is the lowest. Great.

Where is WMW hosted anyway?

[ann]

Anybody hazzard a guess as to what happened?

Same problem and I live in Florida.

I couldn't get webmaster world between 4 am and 6 am, at which time I too actually got some sleep! Amazing!

Ann

[Mardi_Gras]

Whoops - down again. Looks like a bumpy moring for Brett.

Although Internet traffic may be high, Mike, I have no trouble accessing any other sites today - Just WMW and Westhost.

[vitaplease]

Hey Brett,

What happened?

What a silenced surprise!

Rather boring day without the lurking around here,
but then I got a lot of regular work done.
Even checked the other forums for yesterday’s news
– BTW, your not the only one “under repair.”

just a superfluous question, you do back-up regularily do you;)

[Brett_Tabke]

DNS servers went down or the data center that the dns servers were on went down. The whole network was down. There were a HUGE amount of sites off line. I tried 20 sites I know are at the data center where this box is and everthing stopped going in the door. Significant outage.

[Mike_Mackin]

From a host where we put some clients:
"Seems like a major Internet carrier's router is having hiccups this morning...usually lasts a few minutes before they properly re-route..but it seems to be affecting the east coast....unless it's Worldcom..then it could last several hours in some areas."

[caine]

i thought something was up; it was link having no hind legs. checked your other assets, and noticed no resolve. ever thought of mirroring the forums. by my guess the the servers must have been down somewhere around 7+ hours, dependant on what time i tryed to check in when i got into work.

[backus]

Well I thought Brett had forgotten to pay the bill or went bankrupt...

[Sinner_G]

>the servers must have been down somewhere around 7+ hours

Just a bit more than 6 hours, judging by the time between 2 of my posts.

[edited by: Sinner_G at 3:01 pm (utc) on July 9, 2002]

[Brett_Tabke]

> unless it's Worldcom.

That was my first thought too Mike. I do believe the datacenter and infastructure that supports us here is top owned by MCI (eg: Worldcom)

[bluemi]

I hope that Googlebot didn't come round during the outage. Otherwise we'll have a gray pr bar for Webmasterworld after the next update...:-)

[Brett_Tabke]

Googlebot visits an average of 9 pages an hour here...

[Axacta]

Well God is great! I slept right through the whole outage. ;)

[Marcia]

>Just a bit more than 6 hours

That's about what it was. I had done a LONG post and when I went to submit, it was down. It was right around 12:30 AM pacific time.

[Mardi_Gras]

When the site came back up I checked the last post time - a post from Nick_W regarding Google validation at 2:36 AM Central (about the time Marcia was finishing that long post :)). The next post was at 8:45 AM Central. Six hours, nine minutes. Pretty good guess, Marcia! Now get some sleep!

[Nick_W]

Apparently I was the last to post. Couldn't bear not having WMW so much I spent the day at the seaside.

Work, what's that?

Nick

[EliteWeb]

:) I felt no downtime thus far (: Chances are i missed it, which isn't a bad thing or else id be freakn out pacing around the office mumbling 'whys webmasterworld down, i need to read those posts, need to understand better, i wanted to reply, whys webmasterworld down....'

[chris_f]

Glad to see it's back up. I was paralysed most of the day.

[Knowles]

I got lucky I usually check the board before I head off to work about 6:30am central (right in the middle of it!) but for somereason I didnt today. I probably would have had to call into work and just lay in bed all day! I think Nick must have broke it he was the last to post?

[brotherhood of LAN]

I must have caught the end of it at midday UK time.

Adds to my philosophy of "if nothing else is wrong, blame the host" ;)

[Axacta]

>Apparently I was the last to post. Couldn't bear not having WebmasterWorld so much I spent the day at the seaside.<

Nick, I would be careful. Breaking WW even for just a few hours is an almost unforgivable sin. But then to go have a real life while it is broken, and then rub our noses in it could provoke a mob responce! ;)

[stlouislouis]

Hi all,

Does webmasterworld has a dedicated IP? If so, and
it was the DNS, I'm thinking in the future we might be
able to access the site by typing the IP in the
browser (instead of www.webmasterworld.com).
I also missed webmasterworld this morning.

I recall when Microsoft messed up their DNS to some
web site they have. Folks went to netcraft, got
the IP for the site, and brought the site up in their
browser when typing the name wouldn't work. I tried it
while their DNS was messed up and it worked.

I had to go to a workshop, so didn't have time to
try it this morning. Just a FWIW for future reference.
Hope it's helpful.

Take care,

Louis