[OT] Downtime

[BCS]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> I see the digitalmars servers are up and running once again.  They were 
> down for quite a while.
> 
> Are www.digitalmars.com and news.digitalmars.com the same machine?  I'd 
> guess so considering that they were down at the same time.  But why is 
> there a failure mode by which www.digitalmars.com was delivering the 
> content of www.digitaldaemon.com instead?
> 
> Speaking of downtime, it would be good if we had something on Wiki4D or 
> somewhere, similar in concept to
> 
> http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status
> 
> This would give people somewhere to go when the servers are down.  It 
> could even give people a clue of what's going on and how long it's 
> likely to take to fix (as much as is known).
> 
> Stewart.
> 

At my end, the DNS name "digitalmars.com" was unresolvable for a while. 
"whois" even gave me the IP 1.1.1.1 at one point.

What DID happen??