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Anything that makes a system unusable is downtime... "Technically our site was up, just the database was down..."

• ChikkaChiChi 13y ago
  Right, but if their uptime monitor is internal, and they are resolving from an internal address, nothing is wrong.
  • melvinmt 13y ago
    There is the problem.
  • garindra 13y ago
    Yeah, 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 ago
    RIght, 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 ago
  The 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.