Unexpected downtime 9pm - 10.30pm CST

Between 9pm and 10.30pm CST, AcornRack was unavailable, this was due to a DNS failure. AcornRack was restored by rerouting the DNS traffic to another location.

DNS outages are always a pain as they have a knock on effect (http://www.acornrack.com/forum/forum-thread-846125-11076-1217246051.html). The cause for the knock on effect is because your ISP can cache the site when it is down and so the downtime can seem longer than it actually is.

I have been monitoring the servers for 12 hours (need sleep….*yawn*) and everything is back working as it should be.

A couple of people have noticed a few bugs which have cropped up recently, since the server move, and I will be seeing to them as soon as possible. In the meantime if you find any bugs, please submit them to the bugs forum.

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2 Responses to “Unexpected downtime 9pm - 10.30pm CST”

  1. sunny Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:59 am

    waaahhh….I posted it in bugs but we need to start a “fix AR for sunny’s shitty internet” petition. I tried every suggestion and even manually re-set my internet network and nothing. I can access AR through a proxy site only.

  2. zumi Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    *signs petition* My friend in Canada can’t access AR either.

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