[83997] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UNITED.COM (United Airlines) has been down for days! Any info on this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant A. Kirkwood)
Thu Sep 1 14:38:55 2005
Reply-To: <grant@tnarg.org>
From: "Grant A. Kirkwood" <grant@tnarg.org>
To: "'Henry Yen'" <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>,
"'John Palmer'" <nanog@adns.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:29:24 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20050901141731.G2704@AegisInfoSys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Henry Yen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Grant A. Kirkwood 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.
