Voting app offline time?

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:51:09AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:14:46AM +1000, Nigel Jones wrote:
>>>> We had some the original DB downtime ~1-2 hours, then downtime due to
>>>> fas not been around ~1-2 hours, plus a DB downtime of ~2-3 hours and a
>>>> VPN downtime of about an hour.
>>>>
>>>> All in all, I think it meets the 1 day extension criteria.
>>>
>>> Yup, top-side estimates add up to 8 hours, so we should extend the
>>> voting by one day as agreed.  Make it so! ;-)
>>
>> And... after making the announcement, it's come to light that there
>> are some DNS issues outstanding which could potentially have presented
>> a problem to voters.
>>
>
> This one's been difficult to confirm.  We know there were some issues that
> have been resolved and so far slicehost is the only one having issues,
> which is almost certainly on us but so far no one has actually complained
> about any issues which is surprising to me but does point to a not widly
> spread issue.
>

It could also mean they are trying to email about the problems but cannot 
b/c their mailer won't let them email to a domain they cannot find. :(


This is how I noticed the problem this morning from slicehost
.
-sbv