Re:Is it down for everyone or just me?
by staunch on Sunday March 16, 2008 @04:15PM
(#138375)
I think it's a great example of noticing a common problem that no one has solved (to my knowledge) and providing a solution that's damned obvious in retrospect. The domain might be too long to remember. Maybe something like downorjustme.com (available) would be better.
Oddly though, it says youtube.com is down (maybe that's your test case?).
Re:Is it down for everyone or just me?
by zealog on Sunday March 16, 2008 @04:29PM
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I saw this the other day and thought it was pretty neat.
I'm a little unclear how it works. Does it actually attempt to load a page from the requested site or does it simply log the number of people asking about it and assume that something is down by the volume of requests?
If the 2nd one, I can see how it could be pretty flawed, easily gamed, and only usable with some serious critical mass. (It could also explain the YouTube thing if lots of people are using that to check it out).
Re:Is it down for everyone or just me?
by alex_c on Sunday March 16, 2008 @04:28PM
(#138383)
I like these simple one-question-one-answer sites, though I never remember about them when I actually need a specific one. This one is the first Google hit for "down for everyone" though, so that should take care of the long domain name.
I wonder if it only pings from one location? (it probably doesn't account for "down for some people" dns problems).
Re:Is it down for everyone or just me?
by TrevorJ on Monday March 17, 2008 @01:34PM
(#139046)
Can somebody make a script for Firefox that automatically queries this site when the browser is unable to resolve a URL and then returns a dialog letting the user know if the site is truly down? That would be epic.
Re:Is it down for everyone or just me?
by ecommercematt on Monday March 17, 2008 @08:27PM
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Wikipedia.org is down presently, and it is nice to know it is down for everyone and not just me. I hope they come back up soon, as I feel crippled by its absence.
Re:Is it down for everyone or just me?
by curi on Monday March 17, 2008 @01:04AM
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the text field is a little too hard to notice in safari given the pre-entered text. i suggest adding a thicker border and using javascript to select it on pageload.
They special cased their own domain. I love attention to detail like that.
It's really unfortunate sometimes that "general cases > special cases" fundamentalism is so rampant these days, . . .
Oddly though, it says youtube.com is down (maybe that's your test case?).
Down from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in France,
Up from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy in New Zealand
Etc
In what situations would a website be down for just you? Couldn't you just curl, ping, or traceroute a website instead?
I'm a little unclear how it works. Does it actually attempt to load a page from the requested site or does it simply log the number of people asking about it and assume that something is down by the volume of requests?
If the 2nd one, I can see how it could be pretty flawed, easily gamed, and only usable with some serious critical mass. (It could also explain the YouTube thing if lots of people are using that to check it out).
Also sets the HTTP_ACCEPT header to /.
No referer or any other header.
Pierre
curl -I -A "" www.youtube.com
curl -I -A "" www.google.com
I suggest to whoever made that site to put a user agent string in the request.
Plus, it would save me some time answering questions in various IRC channels.
Seems to be working.
By the way, who exactly upmodded this?
youtube is down is it? :/
Good idea, but an error like that doesn't fill me with confidence ;)
I wonder if it only pings from one location? (it probably doesn't account for "down for some people" dns problems).
Could be a good use case for bookmarks.... ;-)
They're awesome http://www.kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites
"It's not just you! digg.com looks down from here."
But I don't think its really down. At least not from here :).
It's not just you! wikipedia.org looks down from here.