[outages] media temple outage

[Larry Sheldon]

On 5/25/2010 18:41, Lori Barfield wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul McMillan <paul at mcmillan.ws> wrote:
>> It seems that mediatemple.net and sites for which they serve DNS have
>> been down for 30 minutes or so. Their twitter claims that it seems to
>> be a DNS misconfiguration and that the servers are not actually down.
> 
> some day, virendra is going to have to create the
> [not-an-outage-its-just-broken-dns] list.

Can you point to a scholarly discussion on the differences (and how to
make them visible) between outage-broken, not-outage-broken,
outage-not-broken, and not-outage-not-broken suitable for display to
whiny customers?

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