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| Thread ID: 48291 | 2004-08-19 00:16:00 | trademe down? | yingxuan (3330) | Press F1 |
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| 263125 | 2004-08-19 08:13:00 | > I’m afraid Trademe is in financial trouble and will > soon close its doors, seems they borrowed heavily in > order to help a Nigerian organization headed by a > minor member of the ruling family get a large amount > of money out of the country. Many a true word shrouded in jest. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 263126 | 2004-08-19 23:49:00 | refer following Computerworld news item: Friday, 20 August, 2004 Tumbling trees topple TradeMe Domainz also hit by "serious" outage Juha Saarinen, Auckland The recent foul weather in Wellington hit Internet businesses as well, as trees came down and broke a section of TelstraClear's fibre-optic cable in the Seatoun suburb. Among the affected were customers using AT&T as an ISP over CityLink. This includes well-known domain registrar Domainz and popular online auction site TradeMe. Sam Morgan, managing director of TradeMe, says the outage affected between a half and two-thirds of TradeMe customers. TradeMe had problems for about six hours, Morgan says, but he declined to give a dollar figure for the loss incurred. “We lost six hours’ worth of revenue, which is serious for an internet business,” Morgan says. TelstraClear’s corporate communications manager Ralph Little says the fault primarily affected cable modem and cable television customers in the Miramar and Berhampore areas of Wellington. Contractors were dispatched to work on the cable, Little says, and TelstraClear expected the fault to be rectified by 7pm last night. Last night an industry source said most of the cable modem users south of Petone were “still off the air” and that the fibre break took down the AT&T network in Wellington. TradeMe’s Morgan says that his company is working with its ISP, AT&T, to build failover capability so as to avoid incidents like the current one in the future. He says the fault affected TradeMe customers who were not coming through the Wellington Internet Exchange. Morgan adds that the fault — a single fibre circuit being severed — was a good example of how universal peering could benefit internet businesses. “A ‘route-rich’ New Zealand internet is able to survive points of failure like these without interruptions,” he says. The outage struck Domainz at about 11am yesterday, says IT manager Tim John. He thinks connectivity was restored at roughly 3.30pm, but says it was done through re-routing the network rather than repairing the broken link. |
icyred (5795) | ||
| 263127 | 2004-08-20 01:45:00 | > refer following Computerworld news item: > Don't repost entire articles, I doubt you have permission to do so. These should be linked. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 263128 | 2004-08-20 03:44:00 | I got into trouble with IDG for doing that once, got a nice email from them to remove the offending cut and paste job. :) However, it would be interesting to get clarification for this situation, seeing Computerworld falls under the IDG group. Would it be a sin to cut and paste an article from (presumably) the same webserver? |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 263129 | 2004-08-20 10:40:00 | refer following Computerworld news item: Don't repost entire articles, I doubt you have permission to do so. These should be linked. so sue me :8} icy |
icyred (5795) | ||
| 263130 | 2004-08-21 12:26:00 | Fibre wasn't hit by tree - was hit by chainsaw cutting tree!!! | davidb (5576) | ||
| 263131 | 2004-08-21 12:33:00 | I think it's safe to blame TelstraClear for all this. (And about those guys who sale premaid computer packages from online stores at twice the price?) |
Growly (6) | ||
| 263132 | 2004-08-21 12:36:00 | Not this time (look at WCC maybe...) whoever cut the trees that were blown over prob hit main fibre too... | davidb (5576) | ||
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