I don't mean to be inflammatory but what's the purpose of HN postings regarding sites being down?<p>I've never actually been to nsa.gov and would have never known it was down. I'm sure most of the readers are in the same boat.<p>Even if I did access the site on a regular basis, I'd realize it was down and come back later when it might be back up.<p>Sometimes my favorite coffee shop is closed. I don't walk around the neighborhood carrying a poster stating that fact.<p>I've just never understood the purpose of these postings. "facebook" is down, "netflix" is down, etc. It doesn't actually accomplish anything.
Oh, i just meet you, and this is crazy, but here is <a href="http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&time=16003&view=map" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&...</a> so DoS maybe ?
It sure is. It's been down for hours.<p><pre><code> http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nsa.gov.html
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Funny thing is, outages for GitHub and its ilk hit HN in minutes. Either way, the transparency in the post-mortem is more valuable and telling than the outage. Organizations need to prove themselves with transparency to build and earn trust.<p>Yet, one of these things is not like the other.
It's www.NSA.gov NOT NSA.gov.<p>www.NSA.gov IS up, at least for me.<p>Edit: I just talked with my American friend and it apparently really is down for them. It works for me up in Canada, though, at 23.6.100.226.
For some reason more people than normal have been hitting my redirect in the last couple days. <a href="http://stats.itanimulli.com" rel="nofollow">http://stats.itanimulli.com</a> I dont think 20k could bring down the nsa, but its still strange.