sigh.... .mac down again....

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thegeldingthegelding
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
can't do email, can't get to homepage....would love to think it is for updates, but history shows it is just messed up...g

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    horned_froghorned_frog Posts: 577member
    It is getting rather old...they better offer current members a substantial discount when it comes time to renew, or I might not. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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    elricelric Posts: 230member
    I think they may be doing updates for iLife actually. I think maybe they realized a problem with iLife integrating with .mac and so now they are working on .mac instead of trashing all the iLife products they have already packaged. I got my .mac at a discount when i purchased it but I agree they should offer some kind of discount when renewal time comes around. iDisk is hella slow that needs to be dealt with, i uploaded 8 megs of pictures to my iDisk account and it took way to long and I am on DSL.
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  • Reply 3 of 10
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Nope. there's a new Microsoft SQL worm floating around. it's putting excessive strain on lots of different networks right now...It's probably not mac.com that is down, but some routes around it that are.
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  • Reply 4 of 10
    elricelric Posts: 230member
    Hmm maybe, but .mac is down the apple store is down and software update is down. Not all of apple is down though, all the other tabs still work. I think they are upto something...
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  • Reply 5 of 10
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    [quote]Originally posted by Elric:

    <strong>Hmm maybe, but .mac is down the apple store is down and software update is down. Not all of apple is down though, all the other tabs still work. I think they are upto something...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    A lot of places are down. The simple explanation for the above Apple servers being down is this... Apple uses Akamai as a sort of relay/duplication service. Apple's web application based services like .Mac and the Apple Store don't use Akamai. Software Update also does not use Akamai.
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  • Reply 6 of 10
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Good to know I'm not the only one who can't access Apple's website.



    This applies to basically all of the not-completely-open parts of the AppleWeb.



    Barto
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  • Reply 7 of 10
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    [quote]Originally posted by Horned_Frog:

    <strong>It is getting rather old...they better offer current members a substantial discount when it comes time to renew, or I might not. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>





    Same here!
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  • Reply 8 of 10
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    It wasn't .mac's fault this time. Eugene said what was causing it. My site was 'down' last night and it's served off a cube at the Univ. of Georgia. (It actually didn't go down, it was just unreachable.) It has nothing to do with bad .mac services. Read about the worm <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982131.html?tag=fd_top"; target="_blank">here</a>. Enjoy!



    [ 01-25-2003: Message edited by: torifile ]</p>
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  • Reply 9 of 10
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    I'm happy to know that such a thing can't happen to me. (because I use a mac)



    [ 01-25-2003: Message edited by: Defiant ]</p>
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  • Reply 10 of 10
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    Anyone can be the target of a DDoS attack.



    Macs might not function as zombies, but they can still be targets.



    In this case, the whole internet was the target <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    Barto
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