If it is inaccessible to more than half the population, can we call it and say it is “offline”?

It still sucks, as you can log on, but not move around or take inventory or do anything but look at SL like a Disney Viewmaster.

New blog post tells us 15 hours to figure that it was network hardware failing and which particular piece of hardware it was.

I’ve witnessed some difficult network troubleshooting before, but 15 hours to track it down to a failed piece of hardware seems a little extreme, even taking into account relying on upstream providers to do some of the troubleshooting.

Looking forward to getting back to work tonight. There are stoners waiting for bong upgrades and that’s of dire importance to the world!

The website went off line, and most people crashed. You couldn’t get any signal out of SL, so you couldn’t tell whether it was online or offline.

When you attempted to log on, you got the “despite our best efforts” and NO GRID STATUS AT ALL.

Eventually, after about 30 minutes, you could try to dial in, and see 11,000 logged on, mysteriously. Today, for example, the grid seemed to be down for all practical purpose, as the message said “Log-ins limited to Lindens,” but the sign-on figure was 11,000.

The Lindens describe the status updates here:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/12/grid-issues-recurred/

They note that the entire website did go offline, but the grid didn’t. However, at the time the story was posted, it was not possible to know this because there was no outside access to SL, even if some people remained logged in.

Gerome, have you never played a game? They often have log-in queues. The more normal games like WoW and The Sims Online or whatever will tell you your log-in-queue wait time. Our game gods just haven’t bothered to do this yet.

Kool-Aide is a very popular spelling of the old trade-mark name “Kool-Aid” and is in the Urban Dictionary and other sources as a variation. And if Jim Jones used Flavor-Aid instead, it’s one of those footnotes in history that is utterly obliterated by later popular accounts (like Jesus’ famous “Sermon on the Mount” which was actually given on flat land).

What amazes me is that, judging from the official blog posts, it is 15 hours after the problems began and LL seems to thus far have no clue at all what is wrong with their network.

Few are the networks that are crippled or down for 15 hours straight. Fewer still are the networks that are down and crippled for 15 hours with the Admins still having no clue at all as to what is wrong with their network.

Watch the VCs shiver in fear.

Would be funny if it weren’t so frustrating and sad.

TB

Would a competent software architect explain how this is possible?