What is the backup DU page?

[mahina]

Long forgotten. Thanks.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. What was with the half-hour DU hiccup?

Routine maintenance or otherwise? Inquiring minds want to know.

[sarcasmo]

2. Russian hiccups?

[anneboleyn]

4. I was nearly hysterical as I was worried we were hacked again. Argh.

[we can do it]

12. Me too! Thought something awful was about to happen again!

[Hortensis]

21. DU Facebook and Twitter were still up.

But I thought I maybe was going to be increasing my monthly contribution to DU.com, once I knew where to send it.

[WheelWalker]

14. Pesky Putinis

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Who hacked you?

[anneboleyn]

6. Something happened. I seriously hope it was fixed. We really need DU now.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Exactly why I expect the russians and the deplorable traitors to attack the site

[Lilyhoney]

5. I was just getting some strange page

when I tried to log on from my phone and laptop. I went to isitdown.com and they said the site was up. I texted my husband and he responded with it is down. Then I tried again and now I'm on just fine.

Strange.

[anneboleyn]

7. Me too. I was getting a "no connection" message for twenty minutes or so, on phone and comp

[Ezior]

13. It was "up" but not working

It was "up" in the sense that the DU domain translated to an IP successfully, the server was reachable, accepted the connection and successfully sent some kind of response to your browser.

Of course, that response was just an error message about a failed database connection. But it's hard for a service like isitdown.com to understand this, so they thought everything is OK and basically just assumed that DU is a website that displays a short text message all the time. It didn't understand that the short message was actually an error message.

[Lilyhoney]

17. Thanks and welcome to DU. nt

[Leghorn21]

8. I know there was one in about...2008? But sure be nice to have again!!! eom

[kentuck]

10. It looks like a hack of short duration.

I had a one-line of gobbledgook at the top of the page.

I should have copied it....perhaps someone could have explained what it meant?

[Ezior]

15. The server was probably unable to establish a database connection

The message just said "No connection" (IIRC) and then printed a database query that was probably supposed to be executed to get the number of top-level forums or something.

So I guess the database server went offline (for maintenance, upgrades, hardware failure, or any reason). Hopefully no hackers involved.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. I still had in on my phone:

no connection: Query failed: SELECT * FROM forums WHERE parent IN ('1001', '1004', '1239') AND status = '1'

Skinner has an explanation: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10138234

[kentuck]

22. That was it.

Thanks!

[csziggy]

11. I went to the Democratic Underground Facebook page

And sent a private message to the effect DU wasn't working.

There used to be a Yahoo page but I think it is abandoned.

[mountain grammy]

16. Glad we're back up and running.

the november nightmare still fresh in my mind.

[Mr. Ected]

18. Mark Levin alleged there is a shadow DU page

But only Breitbart would confirm it.

[Control-Z]

19. I just went to their facebook page.

I remember that old panic room -before facebook existed. Just finding it was a pain in the ass, iirc. Lol. I hate facebook - except when I need them. Then I resent them because I need them.

[BlueStateLib]

23. Pilot error, simple misconfiguration

DU had unexpected downtime this afternoon (March 6)

The Democratic Underground website had unexpected downtime this afternoon from approximately 4:30PM to 5:30PM ET. This downtime was an unintended consequence of a minor configuration change we made to our database server earlier today. This configuration change caused us to run out of hard disk space for some of our server logs, which in turn caused the site to crash. The problem has now been fixed.

The site has not been compromised in any way. We were not hacked. No data was lost.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Skinner
DU Administrator
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10138234