Sun.com down?

[Roedy Green]

I can't even ping sun.com. Is this a local problem or is Sun itself
down. Not that great an advertisement if it is.
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"Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot."
~ Bertrand Meyer (born: 1950 age: 59) 1989, creator of design by contract and the Eiffel language.

 

[markspace]

I can't even ping sun.com. Is this a local problem or is Sun itself
down. Not that great an advertisement if it is.

It was a little slow but it worked for me.

 

[Roedy Green]

It was a little slow but it worked for me.

java.sun.com is running again now, but slowly.
sun.com is now working normally.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot."
~ Bertrand Meyer (born: 1950 age: 59) 1989, creator of design by contract and the Eiffel language.

 

[David Segall]

I can't even ping sun.com.

You can't ping ibm.com, microsoft.com or amazon.com either. They have
all decided it is a security risk and its absence is unlikely to cause
a loss of business.

 

[Mike Schilling]

You can't ping ibm.com, microsoft.com or amazon.com either. They
have
all decided it is a security risk and its absence is unlikely to
cause
a loss of business.

But you can ping google.com and oracle.com, which is handy for
verifying connectivity.

 

[Roedy Green]

That's correct. You can't ping sun even when it is up. However, in
general there are three levels of downness.

1. can't do DNS
2. can't ping
3. can't access the web server.

(1) usually means big trouble -- gone out of business.

(3) is often temporary. They are just restarting the server womb for
some reason.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

"Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot."
~ Bertrand Meyer (born: 1950 age: 59) 1989, creator of design by contract and the Eiffel language.