Fanbois SQUEAL as DNS snafu knocks out iTunes website

Apple suffered a rare outage last night which knocked iCloud, iTunes and several other fruity websites off the internet. What do we check when the Apple System Status site is down?? pic.twitter.com/WShUJmPS7P — Nicolas Melo (@quackyduck) March 12, 2014 The problem has been put down to a DNS snafu, first noticed on Google …

[Anonymous Coward]

First Twitter, now Apple... the creatives will be crying into their lattes down at Starbucks...

[Anonymous Coward]

Naaah. Real creatives drink beer, lots of beer. Your mixing us up with media luvvies.

[Peter Mount]

I don't know, the "media luvvies" I know are serious old school beer drinkers....

[Anonymous Coward]

How dare people dispel the myths.

[Steve Todd]

Oh come on

A 1/2 hour outage for some users isn't a major incident. Mr Hamill is scraping the bottom of the barrel if that's the best he can do.

[Jamie Jones]

Re: Oh come on

" A 1/2 hour outage for some users isn't a major incident. Mr Hamill is scraping the bottom of the barrel if that's the best he can do."

It is to them , though. That's the point - as typified by the quoted twitter post.

[Steve Todd]

Re: Oh come on

Twitter posts are now a measure of importance? How many twitter posts was this?

[Jamie Jones]

Re: Oh come on

Hey, I think it's stupid too, but it doesn't alter the fact that for many, the sky was falling in, and a lot of them read tech sites.

I wouldn't expect it to make BBC News, but the fact many will be in uproar is reason enough to be covered by a daily tech news site

[Observer1959]

Re: Oh come on

Well he was the fanboi who squealed when he read it.

[Ketlan]

Meh

"Apple suffered a rare outage last night which knocked iCloud, iTunes and several other fruity websites off the internet."

Oh dear, how sad, don't care.

[commonsense]

What do we check when the Apple System Status site is down??

Get on with your life?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: What do we check when the Apple System Status site is down??

twitter?

[ForthIsNotDead]

Meh

"Apple suffered a rare outage last night which knocked iCloud, iTunes and several other fruity websites off the internet."

Oh.

[Lockwood]

There was nothing wrong with the DNS entry.

You were just querying it wrong

[ukgnome]

Suggested title

Fanbois squeal at apple crumble

[Anonymous Coward]

From iTunes to ByeTunes.

[Nanners]

I'm more upset

That Safari will not currently play sound cloud pages... But what ever

[Anonymous Coward]

Monitoring

If I did this my Icinga (ne Nagios) monitoring system would go berserk. Surely they have more monitoring than simply millions of Twatters ....

[Anonymous Coward]

Just plain scheduled maintenance while we install the splitter bypass to our brand new Apple-doppelgänger portal. Nothing to see here, people, move along...

- love, the NSA