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Power outage in Amsterdam servers

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brion at wikimedia

Jul 2, 2009, 1:55 PM

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Power outage in Amsterdam servers

This seems to be a power outage at our European proxy caching cluster;
Mark may be able to provide some more details.

European traffic has been rerouted to our US servers, but the extra load
may cause the sites to be a little sluggish for now.

(If your DNS is still seeing the old entries, you can manually configure
your browser to use the US proxy: rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org port 80. You
should only do this temporarily, as you won’t be able to access anything
*but* Wikipedia and our sister projects. :)

Also posted on tech blog:
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/power-outage-in-wikimedias-european-servers/

-- brion

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Jul 3, 2009, 8:26 AM

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Re: Power outage in Amsterdam servers [In reply to]

Brion Vibber wrote:
> (If your DNS is still seeing the old entries, you can manually configure
> your browser to use the US proxy: rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org port 80. You
> should only do this temporarily, as you won’t be able to access anything
> *but* Wikipedia and our sister projects. :)

Since accessing Wikipedia only isn't too nice, for future outages a pac
file can be used:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{

//Not using shExpMatch to avoid kb274204
var regex =
/\.wik(i((m|p)edia|books|quote|news|source|versity)|tionary)\.org/;
if(regexpr.test(host))
return "PROXY rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org:80";

return "DIRECT";
}

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