public service announcement

[gusl]

If a site like Wikipedia is ever offline for several minutes, it's likely to be a problem in my end rather than on their end... and one that can be circumvented by surfing through a proxy, such as http://www.silentsurf.co.uk/

... which raises the question: why isn't my ISP doing that already?

Comments

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

ok, via Twitter search: Wikipedia Site Fails After Servers Overheat

I guess SilentSurf had a cache of the pages I looked up... which is impressive. Either that, or Wikipedia is already accessible in Europe but not Canada or Qatar.

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

It's working fine for me here.

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

After reading the report, it's only the DNS resolution that's not fully propagated yet. If you add an IP entry to your windows hosts file, it can work for you too.

208.80.152.2 en.wikipedia.org

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wirehead_/]

it was DNS caching... so it's not that SilentSurf had a cache, it's that their DNS server happened to refresh more quickly (or yours refreshed at the wrong time and then was stuck with the problem until it got around to refreshing again).