Moved to GD: Apple Store Down?

pbguy · January 25, 2003 2:42AM

It is 2:41 AM (CST) and It seems like the Online Apple store is down. Possible updates coming? Any ideas?

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trevorm · January 25, 2003 2:52AM

Doubt it is anything! Probably just cleaning up the page!

big mac · January 25, 2003 3:04AM

It feels like the servers are having problems, since all of their pages are sluggish. Of course, I could be wrong -- maybe there are going to be 970 Power Macs up in the morning -- but I doubt it

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eugene · January 25, 2003 3:46AM

Internet traffic has been through the roof for the past few hours because of a new worm infecting Microsoft SQL servers.

bnoyhtuawb · January 25, 2003 5:04AM

Apple Store is not "down". Normally if they come up with new stuff you will get a page telling you "sorry we're closed". Right now software update and apple store are just unbearably slow and partly not responding. This sounds more like network trouble or server failures than "new stuff coming".

marcus · January 25, 2003 5:21AM

My .Mac account is down aswell, so I guess it is probably server related...

eugene · January 25, 2003 6:17AM

Or it could be precisely what I mentioned...

Somebody was using a bunch of MS SQL servers to exploit the following vulnerability:

<a href="http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308"; target="_blank">http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308</a>;

The resulting traffic floored a lot of routers, possibly affecting your ability to get to mac.com or the Apple Store site.

bnoyhtuawb · January 25, 2003 6:58AM

<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0117621/2003/01/25.html#a116"; target="_blank">http://radio.weblogs.com/0117621/2003/01/25.html#a116</a>;

has some info and pointers!

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eugene · January 25, 2003 7:10AM

Slashdot finally got wind of it.

fran441 · January 25, 2003 7:12AM

Moving to General Discussion.

Moved to GD: Apple Store Down?

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