Voting app offline time?

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:08:15PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >
> > >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > >
> > >>On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:51:09AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > >>>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:14:46AM +1000, Nigel Jones wrote:
> > >>>>We had some the original DB downtime ~1-2 hours, then downtime due to
> > >>>>fas not been around ~1-2 hours, plus a DB downtime of ~2-3 hours and a
> > >>>>VPN downtime of about an hour.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>All in all, I think it meets the 1 day extension criteria.
> > >>>
> > >>>Yup, top-side estimates add up to 8 hours, so we should extend the
> > >>>voting by one day as agreed.  Make it so! ;-)
> > >>
> > >>And... after making the announcement, it's come to light that there
> > >>are some DNS issues outstanding which could potentially have presented
> > >>a problem to voters.
> > >>
> > >
> > >This one's been difficult to confirm.  We know there were some issues that
> > >have been resolved and so far slicehost is the only one having issues,
> > >which is almost certainly on us but so far no one has actually complained
> > >about any issues which is surprising to me but does point to a not widly
> > >spread issue.
> > >
> >
> > It could also mean they are trying to email about the problems but
> > cannot b/c their mailer won't let them email to a domain they cannot
> > find. :(
> >
> >
> > This is how I noticed the problem this morning from slicehost.
>
> What's the status on the DNS problems?  Were they resolved, and if so,
> approximately when?  That will tell me what we need to do for a
> further extension for voting.
>
> Thanks to all of you who worked on this problem and the rest of the
> move.
>

AFAIK, some people had issues for an hour or two.  But having said that..
I'm begining to think more and more this is a bind bug because I still
can't resolve fedoraproject.org from my slicehost:

dig @67.207.128.4 fedoraproject.org

I'd think if this was a wide spread problem people would be screaming
about it.

	-Mike