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Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oops-sorry-that-was-me dept.

Kolargol00 writes "An outage affected the Mozilla.com website on the day the organisation launched its Guinness World Record attempt for downloads of the new Firefox 3 browser. The mozilla.com site was unreachable from around the world, occasionally responding with the message, 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.'" Since they decided to run their day from 1pm to 1pm Eastern time, the download day is actually still going, so you can still get Firefox and be part of the record.

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  1. Download Counter by magister159 · · Score: 5, Informative

    As unwise as it may be to post a link to the download counter on slashdot, you can find a real time counter here.

    By my calculations, they won't be able to hit the 10 million mark in time.

  2. Re:Microsoft-DDOS? by CDMA_Demo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Makes sense. The IE team at MS loves firefox: http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/06/17/the-cake-is-a-lie-ie-team-bakes-a-treat-for-mozilla

  3. Re:And THIS is why you use a CDN of some sort... by jrumney · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla does have a content distribution network. www.mozilla.com is an alias for www-mozilla-com.geo.mozilla.com, which resolves to several different addresses at different times even from the same location. The downloads are further passed off to various mirror servers around the world.

  4. Re:Potentially harmful? by Albanach · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might want to read this from Microsoft. In particular, take a look at the setting for DefaultFileTypeRisk

  5. Re:Pointy Haired Wisdom by burris · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can't easily count bittorrent downloads, especially since they are only counting completed downloads.

    As soon as a client completes a download it makes an HTTP connection to the tracker and says it is complete. This is why every BT tracker/index-site is able to display a counter for complete downloads. Are you sure you know how BitTorrent works?