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For me, the HN part of the story is that the FBI servers are having trouble keeping up with the traffic to their site. Edit: Here's one of the responses I got
by MichaelApproved 14y ago
For me, the HN part of the story is that the FBI servers are having trouble keeping up with the traffic to their site.
Edit: Here's one of the responses I got while trying to load the FBI website
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The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the requested URL the following error was encountered:
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Footprint did not receive any data for this request.
Footprint 4.8/FPMCP
Generated Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:42:44 GMT by 8.12.217.126 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)
- blaines 14y agoIn addition the linked footprint site is not responding!
- underdown 14y agothe link up top is a malformed url - looks like maybe a bad c&p http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multip... worked for me
- blaines 14y agoYep your link (kind of) worked. It's not loading quickly or entirely.
- martin_ 14y agoWrong - it may look like a bad c&p, but if you go to fbi.gov and check the link on the right hand side, it is, in fact correct. The servers are just struggling right now with the assets, now mine are cached it loads instantly.
- underdown 14y agoya - guess you're right - what a redundant url.
- danso 14y agoYeah, I hate to say it, but my first thought was: "Is there no one at the FBI who has ever heard of a CDN or S3 or even Imgur to upload static assets to?" The issue at hand isn't a national emergency (because the attacks happened a few days ago with the suspects apparently quiet) but one of these days, they'll need a more robust way to disseminate info.
- pekk 14y agoTo be fair, I don't think that many people on HN are facing the kind of traffic spike the FBI site just got.
- slg 14y agoWhile these photos and video are the opposite of confidential, I am not the least bit surprised that the FBI wants to keep the FBI's data on the FBI's servers given the nature of their business.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- MichaelApproved 14y agoThe website is public. There's nothing keeping them from having using a CDN or other caching service or, better yet, setting up their own caching servers to handle the load better.
- icpmacdo 14y agoI would find it quite amusing if the FBI was posting to imgur.
- martin_ 14y agoThe BBC have mirrored some of the data: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22211190 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22211190
- sinnerswing 14y agocnn.com, nytimes.com, nbcnews.com
- MichaelApproved 14y agoThat's not the point. The public should be able to get the information directly from the FBI's website without it being filtered through the media. You'd think the FBI would be able to setup some server caching to handle traffic spikes to their website.
- D9u 14y agoThe site loads up fine for me, and an Etherape scan shows that the site uses more than just one or two servers.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- brownbat 14y agoThe primary release is from the fbi YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M80DXI932OE http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M... There are two unblurred suspects in that video, and the FBI site has some other grainy photos of the two suspects.
- blhack 14y agoIf anybody is looking for a mirror... http://imgur.com/a/wRl0g http://imgur.com/a/wRl0g