The New York Times Website is Down

http://nytimes.com/

by antonioevans • 13 years ago

29 16 13 years ago

nytimes.com

swiil2• 13 years ago

Anyone know on what's going on?

untog2• 13 years ago

An internal issue, not a cyberattack as previously reported.

alanbyrne• 13 years ago

Yet if you browse to the IP's directly, it is up...

http://170.149.168.130

cscheid• 13 years ago

"Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Last Update: 11:07 AM ET" 2 hours ago as of this post.

swiil2• 13 years ago

Weird didn't seem like a DNS problem.

RossM• 13 years ago

Updated time is a few hours out, might be a cache server?

alxndr• 13 years ago

From the NY Times Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nytimes

"As you are undoubtedly aware, we are experiencing a server issue that has resulted in our e-mail and Web site being unavailable."

"We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which we expect to be resolved soon."

"We will communicate further when we have more information. - from @NYTimesComm"

nlh• 13 years ago

They're providing updates through the twitters, though not terribly informative ones...

@nytimes: Part 1/3: As you are undoubtedly aware, we are experiencing a server issue that has resulted in our e-mail and Web site being unavailable.

@nytimes: We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which we expect to be resolved soon. (2/3)

@nytimes: We will communicate further when we have more information. - from @NYTimesComm (3/3)

tlongren• 13 years ago

I've had no issues loading nytimes.com from multiple internet connections and various browsers. So not really down, maybe not updated, but definitely not down. I suppose they had it mostly resolved by time I tried browsing there, though.

untog2• 13 years ago

It's back up, mostly.

parimm• 13 years ago

nslookup nytimes.com

Server: 127.0.1.1

Address: 127.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: nytimes.com

Address: 170.149.168.130

Name: nytimes.com

Address: 170.149.172.130

going to http://170.149.168.130 works but going to nytimes.com doesnot work. Whats going on here?

jrussbowman• 13 years ago

if I had to play a hunch, name based virtualhost settings got messed up. Or a proxy/caching server not handling hostname passing correctly.

aceperry2• 13 years ago

Funny, using http://www.rexswain.com/cgi-bin/httpview.cgi to look at the site, I get the NYTimes' homepage. Using Chrome, I get: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

aceperry2• 13 years ago

Nevermind! It works now. :P

gearoidoc• 13 years ago

How does this get to the frontpage of HN?

couradical• 13 years ago

When I looked into it earlier, their zone file was pretty empty except for some ns records and www. I'm assuming that something cleaned it out a bit as even the root record didn't resolve.

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