Posts Tagged ‘lotus’
When you don't believe in your own product, you provide an uninstaller.
I wonder what their marketing department thinks of that.
Michael Masterson writes:
I wanted to let you know that we've addressed the issue of developer.lotus.com and that it should now be accessible. We apologize for the confusion and downtime on the URL redirection. Our goal is to ensure we transform developerWorks into a simple and valuable resource for the Lotus community, with our most important [...]
The background of this posting is easily understood: IBM/Lotus announce a new site, and it turns out the site is unreachable, because its DNS settings (that's the stuff the makes your browser know where to go to) are badly broken. To add insult to injury, once their DNS settings are fixed (a trivial change which [...]
Chris also appears to be avidly following the IBM/Lotus DNS saga, and writes that there is news! (BTW, my joke plugin didn't detect this change, because I didn't expect it to happen any more. )
The news? They've managed to get enough knowhow together to replace the whole resource record:
dig @cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net. developer.lotus.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
developer.lotus.com. [...]
I think I speak on behalf of Volker and Stefan, when I say that we have little hope that IBM/Lotus will ever fix what they buggered up. I for one, don't want to keep checking.
While waiting for a phone call, I whipped up a little Nagios / Icinga plugin to monitor the "progress" of the [...]
The launch started about two hours ago, and a little later Volker asks around whether anybody can resolve the domain name. I dig and point out that it can't work.
Two hours later, they've still got it hosed.
And there's more than one of us who've seen the problem. I tried a hint, but it is a [...]