Connection refused?

February 22, 2004 9:06 AM

Connection refused? This morning (around 7:30 AM PST) I wasn't able to access metafilter.com or ask.metafilter.com, although I was able to ping the same names. Looks like some others were having the same. Was there an issue?
posted by daver to bugs at 9:06 AM (7 comments total)

Yeah the web server died at some point in the night. It happens once every few days, usually in the daytime and I can fix it quickly.

There are still some bugs to work out.
posted by mathowie at 9:08 AM on February 22, 2004

thats the first time i've ever heard IIS and CF being referred to as "bugs to be worked out". i like it! :-)
posted by quonsar at 10:21 AM on February 22, 2004

The website was having an issue. Was there an issue?
posted by xmutex at 9:50 AM on February 23, 2004

I just had the same problem ten minutes ago -- I could get to metafilter.com and ask.metafilter.com, but metatalk.metafilter.com gave me a "Connection Failure" error message. I could get to individual MetaTalk threads, though, via my user page. (It's working now, obviously...I was going to post about it on MetaTalk, but couldn't get to MetaTalk to do so. D'oh!)
posted by Vidiot at 10:08 AM on February 23, 2004

My connection gets refused once every couple days or so, for anywhere from a couple minutes to most of the day.

Is it my breath?
posted by jennyb at 1:41 PM on February 23, 2004

I thought it was me, not you, jennyb. I was literally pushing the button this morning to post my first link in many months, after being up since 3a, and things went dead. Hmm . . . I said. Seems a bit extreme (although maybe not a bad idea) to shut down the whole site just to keep me away.
posted by LeLiLo at 3:04 PM on February 23, 2004

After the last downtime, I still haven't been able to access the site for a couple days (until now). Thankfully, I rarely have anything of any real import to say, so the balance struck while I was here seems to have been maintained.
posted by The God Complex at 12:26 AM on February 24, 2004