Moved to GD: Apple Store Down?

pbguy

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

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

big mac

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 .

eugene

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

bnoyhtuawb

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

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

eugene

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

<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

Slashdot finally got wind of it.

fran441

Moving to General Discussion.