[rhn-users] RHN downtime

[Clifford Perry]

Hosey, Chester wrote:

> So I'm in the middle of installing RHEL Desktop 4u1 on my supervisor's 
> supervisor's desktop, when I find out that RHN is down and I can't 
> register the machine. Apparently setting up some form of redundancy or 
> doing any sort of QA on RHN would hurt Satellite sales, so for us mere 
> users it's the sort of reliability I'd expect out of a Dodge Neon with 
> a slipping transmission and blown head gasket.
>
> RHN was sloooow yesterday, broken today. Judging from limited past 
> experience and the rhn-outage mailing list this is the sort of service 
> Red Hat considers to be good enough. Fortunately for them, given 
> recent events I can't appropriately make a trite "We can send a man to 
> the moon, but we can't…" comment.
>
> Of course this doesn't reflect the opinion of my employer. I'm sure 
> that the RHN outage made me look much worse than it does Red Hat.
>
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Since this was not a scheduled outage event a notice was posted to the 
rhn-outage-list yesterday. This was after a review of what happened had 
been completed. As such there is also now a scheduled outage window for 
Friday night (tonight).

For more details, see :
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhn-outage-list/2005-July/msg00000.html

Regards,
Clifford.