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well, technically, their system was up, the certificates were just expired.
by pionar 13y ago
well, technically, their system was up, the certificates were just expired.
- crystaln 13y agoAnything that makes a system unusable is downtime... "Technically our site was up, just the database was down..."
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoRight, but if their uptime monitor is internal, and they are resolving from an internal address, nothing is wrong.
- melvinmt 13y agoThere is the problem.
- garindra 13y agoYeah, but if your status page is made to be seen by external people, the right thing to do would be to monitor it just like if you were using it externally. There are whole slew of problems that wouldn't be exposed correctly if your monitoring point is internal -- like this exact problem, DNS, etc.
- encoderer 13y agoRIght, but since their customers are not internal, having a monitor that is not outside of their network would make for a pretty poor uptime monitor.
- michaelmior 13y agoThe system would be useable. You just wouldn't be able to validate the certificate. That said, it's a fine line and I would consider the system down in this case anyway.
- DenisM 13y agoIt's time for this old joke again: A software engineer is firing a rifle on the shooting range, but not hitting any targets. Puzzled, he puts his finger into the barrel, and pulls the trigger. Seeing as his finger is blow off, he cheerfully reports to the instructor: - On my end the bullets are flying out, so the problem is somewhere on your end, with the target!