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SaM 01 · May 1, 2001, 12:44 AM

Apple servers are down right now as of 9:43. Something big has got to be up.

fats · May 1, 2001, 12:48 AM

Yep. Software update is down too.
* Shivers with anticipation *

yellar · May 1, 2001, 12:49 AM

Wow. I can remember other times when the Apple store would be closed for updating, but I can't remember the main page simply being unavailable. They must be doing a significant update to either the site or the servers. I'm guessing that everything is no going according to plan, however, if their main site is unreachable.

Ghoser777 · May 1, 2001, 12:50 AM

Originally posted by SaM 01:
Apple servers are down right now as of 9:43. Something big has got to be up.

Well as of 11:50 (which I think is 9:50 your time), they are up and humming. I can go to apple's page and mount my idisk.

F-bacher

King Chung Huang · May 1, 2001, 12:56 AM

It's still down for me.

I tried www.apple.com, apple.com, store.apple.com, and www.apple.ca.

snodman · May 1, 2001, 12:57 AM

They are not reachable for me at 9:56pm PST. Neither is System Update.

Ghoser777 · May 1, 2001, 01:00 AM

Originally posted by King Chung Huang:
It's still down for me.

I tried www.apple.com, apple.com, store.apple.com, and www.apple.ca.

I can even ping them. I have no idea what ur guys problems are. Maybe a router in ur area is down or something. I'm in illinois, where are all u guys?

F-bacher

jagga · May 1, 2001, 01:01 AM

works for me here in northern california.

jagga

Sinemacula · May 1, 2001, 01:05 AM

Well, I'm in northern CA too - and it's not working for me. No access to www.apple.com, and software update just keeps checking, and checking, and checking...
iDisk, on the other hand, mounted fine.

yellar · May 1, 2001, 01:05 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ghoser777:
[B] I can even ping them. I have no idea what ur guys problems are. Maybe a router in ur area is down or something. I'm in illinois, where are all u guys?

I can't ping them either and traceroute only gets as far as alter.net. Perhaps this is a coincidence that there is a major outage and its May 1st?

plaidpjs · May 1, 2001, 01:06 AM

Everything, site, SU, work fine for me here in Connecticut.

hehe, but i did get all shivery thinking maybe something was coming...

Come to think of it though, all of us getting through could be hitting a mirror! Okay... so I'm charging at windmills... give me my dreams, okay?!?!

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Ghoser777 · May 1, 2001, 01:07 AM

Originally posted by yellar:

I can't ping them either and traceroute only gets as far as alter.net. Perhaps this is a coincidence that there is a major outage and its May 1st?

No, I said that I COULD ping them. But oh well.

F-bacher

King Chung Huang · May 1, 2001, 01:09 AM

Hmm, maybe it is a router problem somewhere along the way. Make sure you guys clear your browser caches and aren't using proxies so that you're not loading a locally cached copy.

starfleetX · May 1, 2001, 01:09 AM

Everything works fine.
The websites, software update, iDisk.
Nothing's different so far.
It all works fine from my LAN connection at North Carolina State University.

spectre · May 1, 2001, 01:11 AM

Cant connect to the apple site through my Cable Modem from British Columbia ..

Ben

Ghoser777 · May 1, 2001, 01:12 AM

Originally posted by King Chung Huang:
Hmm, maybe it is a router problem somewhere along the way. Make sure you guys clear your browser caches and aren't using proxies so that you're not loading a locally cached copy.

You can't cache iDisk, so either sme routers are down, some of apple's servers are down, or a lot of people are being wishful thinkers.

F-bacher

May 1, 2001, 01:13 AM

Not available overseas in Turkey either...Hmmm.

nigeljedi · May 1, 2001, 01:16 AM

Same as when the 10.0.1 update came out. I waited and waited, to no avail. I had to wait a couple of days to get back in.

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May 1, 2001, 01:22 AM

Can't log on here in Pasadena in So. California! Can get on the iDisk, however.

yellar · May 1, 2001, 01:23 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ghoser777:
[B] You can't cache iDisk, so either sme routers are down, some of apple's servers are down, or a lot of people are being wishful thinkers.

Its possible that only some of Apple's hardware is non-functional right now , but I don't think that iDisk is a good measure of this. I seem to recall that Apple partnered with a storage company prior to announcing iDisk, thus it seems likely to me that the connection to iDisk is actually maintained by a third party.

Scrod · May 1, 2001, 01:24 AM

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
I can even ping them. I have no idea what ur guys problems are. Maybe a router in ur area is down or something. I'm in illinois, where are all u guys?

F-bacher

I'm in Illinois as well, and I cannot connect.

Ghoser777 · May 1, 2001, 01:29 AM

Originally posted by yellar:
Its possible that only some of Apple's hardware is non-functional right now , but I don't think that iDisk is a good measure of this. I seem to recall that Apple partnered with a storage company prior to announcing iDisk, thus it seems likely to me that the connection to iDisk is actually maintained by a third party.

True, about iDisk. But I can still access random parts of Apple's site that haven't been cached, so I still think it's a router issue. Hey, I had a thought, how many people are in OSX who are having problems? I'm in my school's computer lab, which is on OS9.1... so maybe it's something with OSX? (thinking no, but's it's a thought).

F-bacher

the_sisko · May 1, 2001, 01:32 AM

I'm in Northern California, and everything is working just fine for me at 9:31 PST.

Since EBCDIC · May 1, 2001, 01:32 AM

Well, it's 2231 Monday and www.apple.com is definitely incommunicado.

I suspect that some of you are looking at your own session caches.

The mothership is away :-)

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Make every post count!

Ghoser777 · May 1, 2001, 01:33 AM

Originally posted by Since EBCDIC:
Well, it's 2231 Monday and www.apple.com is definitely incommunicado.

I suspect that some of you are looking at your own session caches.

The mothership is away :-)

Hate to burst ur buble, but I just tried clearing my cache, and apple's site still worked. Sorry to dismiss all ur guys hopes that something bug was coming... yet.

F-bacher

Apfhex · May 1, 2001, 01:37 AM

Well, I'm in Norther CA too, and I can't connect as of 10:35 PM PST (IE gives me the standard "The page cannot be displayed" error).

I'm not on my Mac right now, so I can't ping.

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I'mDaMac · May 1, 2001, 01:37 AM

10:35 P.S.T. and still no Apple.com. What time tomorrow is the press event anyway? They are probably prepping the servers for tomorrow's anticipated high volume traffic.

Scott_H · May 1, 2001, 01:37 AM

Many will find that ping works and tracerout fails. Looks like a router is down. Some say this means an update. I don't know.

May 1, 2001, 01:39 AM

They are getting ready for new iBook, I guess (WOW, Mac OS X's spell checker didn't recognize iBook word

)

juanvaldes · May 1, 2001, 01:43 AM

Stockton CA, apple still works and I went to checkout some hot news that I had not read yet so I know it was not chased.

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jagga · May 1, 2001, 01:43 AM

[b] still works here in northern california. Its not cache since I refreshed it and the home page changed. Now its showing a Powerbook G4 with OSX on it. [b]

jagga

SnowmanX · May 1, 2001, 01:51 AM

Apple.com down, but only for some...hmmm. I think it's the Chinese.

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Severed Hand of Skywalker · May 1, 2001, 01:53 AM

It was down for me but it is back at EST 1:50am.

Nothing new on the site or my iDisk.
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Ironfist.cmg · May 1, 2001, 02:18 AM

Works for me, it has all night.

Seattle, WA.

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PerfectlyNormalBeast · May 1, 2001, 02:22 AM

This is the longest thread I've read about absolutly nothing.

fats · May 1, 2001, 02:32 AM

I've read longer

jagga · May 1, 2001, 02:35 AM

Originally posted by fats:
I've read longer

how about now? is it the longest?

jagga

Kristoff · May 1, 2001, 02:55 AM

Originally posted by SnowmanX:
Apple.com down, but only for some...hmmm. I think it's the Chinese.

WHAT YOU SAY?!?

SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB!

ALL OF YOUR P3C ORION ARE BELONG TO US!

the_sisko · May 1, 2001, 03:06 AM

Whatever is going to happen, we won't find out until *after* the press event, and not a moment before. Apple likes to officially announce things before they go up on the web (except admittedly the 10.0.1 update, which they kept low-key to avoid bad repercussions with the press, a plan that worked very well). I wouldn't expect anything having to do with the operating system itself out tomorrow, just app updates. Tuesday is a day that gets too many web site hits for them to do something with the OS now. But I've been wrong before.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · May 1, 2001, 03:10 AM

Originally posted by Kristoff:
ALL OF YOUR P3C ORION ARE BELONG TO US!
[/B]

Funny and original....
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SkullMacPN · May 1, 2001, 07:03 AM

Is it just me, or did the OS X page change ever so slightly?

GnOm · May 1, 2001, 07:08 AM

Originally posted by SkullMacPN:
Is it just me, or did the OS X page change ever so slightly?

it must be just you, nothing different here.

macvillage.net · May 1, 2001, 08:09 AM

Can you say network outage?

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spike · May 1, 2001, 08:19 AM

No problem to access apple.com from belgium

mike one · May 1, 2001, 08:26 AM

this thread is complete rubbish.

i hope we can get a few hundred more posts in it.

foobars · May 1, 2001, 09:06 AM

I'd just like to say this thread title was both witty and refreshing.

Please carry on with the rubbish posts.

jamesa · May 1, 2001, 09:32 AM

What time is the press event later on?

HeyAndy · May 1, 2001, 09:34 AM

I can view the Apple hompepage -- I don't know if this is new since I don't really hit it on a daily basis but it looks like it's all osX now. The homepage cycles through about 3 different main graphics. I wonder if Apple is getting ready for the big media push for osX...

PowerBookDude · May 1, 2001, 09:37 AM

Originally posted by jamesa:
What time is the press event later on?

Probably 12:00 PM PST

PBDude

MacGorilla · May 1, 2001, 11:21 AM

The press event starts at 10am PST (thats 1pm back east). I can reach www.apple.com I am from massachusetts and everything is OK at 1121am EST