UNITED.COM (United Airlines) has been down for days! Any info on this?

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The United Airlines website appears to be down and has been down for days.

Is this a network issue or are they out of business??

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On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 12:54:42 -0500, John Palmer proclaimed...

   The United Airlines website appears to be down and has been down for
   days.

Plug your computer back into the network. It works fine here from several
AS's

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Works fine for me.

shrug

www.ual.com also forwards appropriately.

Scott

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Works fine for me. What testing have you done and what exactly are you seeing?

Jamie

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John Palmer wrote:

The United Airlines website appears to be down and has been down for days.

Is this a network issue or are they out of business??

Neither.. just systematic and ongoing web development incompetency.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467617

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467121

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=468034

etc....

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This problem (or its close relative) was discussed on nanog less than
three months ago:
   http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-06/msg00034.html

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Henry Yen wrote:

>
> John Palmer wrote:
> >
> >The United Airlines website appears to be down and has
been down for days.
> >
> >Is this a network issue or are they out of business??
> >
>
>
> Neither.. just systematic and ongoing web development incompetency.
>
> http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467617
>
> http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467121
>
> http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=468034
>
> etc....

This problem (or its close relative) was discussed on nanog
less than three months ago:
   http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-06/msg00034.html

Their problems go far, far beyond just DNS. They have had consistent
problems for well over a year. Basic stuff--- like booking a ticket. It's no
wonder they can't get out of bankruptcy.

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The United Airlines website appears to be down and has been down for =
days.

Is this a network issue or are they out of business??

Darn those pesky alternate root servers.

R's,
John

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Nice try, but the location that I was trying from did not use "alternative root servers".

FYI: They are "Inclusive Namespace Servers".