Comments on: Parliament is Unresponsive

By: davebath

davebath — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:18:15 +0000

JC: Thanks – can we split the winnings? Thanks too (which Adrien must have missed) for acknowledging me in the first words of this post.
Green money. I’m redgreen colorblind. Do we have any green money?

AdrienSword: I noticed a lot else besides. See my recent “Parliamentary dog ate my homework” post. I’m after everyone’s thoughts before I send a smellogram (de-odorized with my tact-checker, of course, so the only smell is between the lines) to the web managers for aph and the senate, so would appreciate any comments back on Balneus so they are easier to assimilate.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:21:25 +0000

I’ll take that bet. Dave Bath noticed it too.

By: AdrienSword

AdrienSword — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:13:39 +0000

Jacques – I’ll bet green money that yer the only person in the Universe who noticed.

By: davebath

davebath — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:58:51 +0000

I got a comment on the original post that claims to be from an aph.gov.au email and claims a scheduled power outage. To me, there should have been fairly simple measures taken (like redirecting to a static "don't panic" page). I discuss this sort of thing and a few other options in a response comment. It still doesn't explain the senate submissions system crashing your session or being dog slow (a minute for half a page of text) as outlined here. The dog ate their business continuity plan. Any comments over there from IT professionals, particularly EAs, middleware gurus and Business Continuity types are VERY welcome.

By: pablo

pablo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:25:10 +0000

Priceless DB priceless

By: davebath

davebath — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:55:37 +0000

Update:
aph.gov.au up, but https://senate.aph.gov.au submissions application still stumbling.

Diagnostics and details on how the check for yourself here

By: Implications of off-line parliamentary webserver « Balneus

Implications of off-line parliamentary webserver « Balneus — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:58:18 +0000

[...] The implications of the federal parliamentary website being out of action (see my earlier post and Club Troppo for more info) are serious, whatever the cause, because not only was it offline for 12 hours or [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:52:05 +0000

The minister against communications finally found someone who’d agree to trial his filter.

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:42:43 +0000

I took off ‘www’, apparently Wordpress looks on that as an invitation to step in. Usually sensible.

By: davebath

davebath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:40:08 +0000

(And why does wp automatically put a http colon slash slash on the front?
JC: Can you put a nbsp just prior to the www in my previous comment to get rid of the “I know better than you do” autoformatting?

By: davebath

davebath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:38:47 +0000

Nerdy joke: Parliament is a total loss
Proof:

C:\Users\bathdt>ping aph.gov.au Pinging wopared.aph.gov.au [202.14.81.230] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 202.14.81.230: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)

By: davebath

davebath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:27:22 +0000

Not Telstra? ANGRY AMIGOS! Surely aph.gov.au and australia.gov.au have the same primary DNS or at least run by non-deadly enemies.

But I’m getting “Pinging aph.gov.au [202.14.81.230] with 32 bytes of data:” so the DNS works, and a traceroute from the US gets as far as crowsnest with the whois… oh dear, the map is pointing into the middle of a paddock outside Canberra (must be all the Bulls**t).

http://202.14.81.230/ times out too.

australia.gov.au still up.

We’re not under attack from Singapore? (Oh no, they run everything here already!)

By: Jacques Chester

Jacques Chester — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:20:12 +0000

A quick look at their whois record shows that their primary DNS server is ns1.optus.net.au, which doesn’t respond to ping. Maybe that’s the cause of their woes.

By: davebath

davebath — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:17:48 +0000

I’m wondering if they have just uploaded all the Hansard or whatever with the “think of the children” blah blah…. and the test content filter has picked up all the keywords.

Now THAT would be funny!

And I’m just wondering if I was on line when the failure occurred MUCH earlier today (documented here).