Re: Continued Problems Accessing *.php.net?

On 1/23/2012 6:22 PM, Daniel Brown wrote:

     ALL:

     As you may have noticed, early this morning we got bored and

decided to delete php.net from the Internet. After getting an estimated sixteen-point-four trillion complaints, we became overwhelmed and aggravated by your incessant need to RTFM that we pressed CTRL+Z and brought it back. You're welcome.

     In earnest, a catastrophic failure on one of our systems coincided

with a migration effort being headed by some very talented folks. This led to a domino effect of issues that resulted in a temporary - but widespread - impact on the online version of the documentation and downloads. Things are nearly back to "normal" now across the network --- or so it seems. If you come across any issues on your favorite *.php.net mirror, please let us know at https://bugs.php.net/ or via a reply to this thread and we'll check it out.

     As a result, a list of the top ten reasons PHP had an outage today:

         10.) We installed an experimental PECL module named "Invisible Ink."
          9.) We learned our indoor solar panels don't work when the

lights get turned off.

          8.) We had our mobile bandwidth slowed to a crawl because we

exceeded 2GB for the month.

          7.) A Groupon swarm for two free downloads for the price of

one killed our network.

          6.) We whited out this time to protest another

Patriots/Giants Superbowl, while the BC Lions never even got a phone call.

          5.) Our build of mod_expires runs on the Mayan calendar, and

attempting to do a 60-day expire segfaulted.

          4.) The $25.90 check we wrote to cover the server's AOL

dial-up bounced.

          3.) It's Chinese New Year, but it was too cold to set off the

fireworks outside today, so.... sorry.

          2.) As it turned out, all our base truly were belong to them.
          1.) We needed 7,500,001 signatures on the petition against SOPA/PIPA.

     Thanks to all for your patience and such.  And, of course, apologies to all.

Now, how about having the "some very talented folks" fix the severely restricted access to the NNTP server. Rarely can I download more than about 10 topics without a time out. Per your request several times over at least 2 years, I've filed bug reports. The problem still exists. Though until about a week ago, it was a little better. Al............