Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

Stupid question Dennis ... what time was this? Early afternoon my time,
we had an 'out of disk space' condition that forced me to restart the
vServers on that machine ... wasn't thinking timezones ;(

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>>> Turns out it's related to the ads, so if I just adblock the ad
>>>> server I can see the page just fine. Kind of bad it's
>> needed however
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> I also tried to show the page in opera and it looks the
>> same as in
>>>> firefox.
>>>
>>> Intersting. It works fine for me. Did you try multiple
>> times? (Since
>>> you tried a different browser, I assume you did).
>>
>> Of course. Maybe it's was some dns problem (all the adresses
>> seemed to resolve, but maybe some adress have been updated
>> but not propagated to all dns servers, or something. What do I know?).
>>
>> As I said, I could solve it just fine by using adblock so
>> it's not a problem for me. I just wanted to tell someone about it.
>>
>> I did try like 50 times during 30 minutes. Every time it got
>> stuck waiting on 200.46.208.156.
>
> Aaahh. I missed that parto f your screenshot!
>
> That means ads.hub.org was down, and it would wait until it timed out.
>
> Marc - can we make that check async? Since you're updating the code
> anyway, because it breaks website XHTML complicancy? Need any help with
> the code?
>
> //Magnus
>

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