Message: 2
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:46:53 +1000
From: "Tim Starling" <ts4294967296(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Re: Wikitech-l Wikipedia stuck
To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
Message-ID: <bkhlmr$atp$1(a)sea.gmane.org>
Unfortunately there was nothing I could do about
that. We could display an
error message on en: because the requests for en:
web pages go to larousse,
and larousse was working fine. The database was on
pliny, and that server
was not responding.
Requests for web pages on the other-language wikis
go straight to pliny, not
via another webserver. If I had root access (and
assuming I also had some
vague understanding of linux networking), I might
have been able to pull an
IP aliasing trick like Brion did last time larousse
went down. That involves
making larousse pretend to be pliny. I imagine Brion
would have attempted
that if he had more time.
Soon, the other-language webserving will also be
moved to larousse, which is
fine as long as larousse doesn't crash.
-- Tim Starling <t=starling=physics=unimelb=edu=au>
Okay. Thanks very much for the explanation Tim.
Anthere
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