<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6603.0"> <TITLE>RHN downtime</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  So I'm in the middle of installing RHEL Desktop 4u1 on my supervisor's supervisor's desktop, when I find out that RHN is down and I can't register the machine. Apparently setting up some form of redundancy or doing any sort of QA on RHN would hurt Satellite sales, so for us mere users it's the sort of reliability I'd expect out of a Dodge Neon with a slipping transmission and blown head gasket. RHN was sloooow yesterday, broken today. Judging from limited past experience and the rhn-outage mailing list this is the sort of service Red Hat considers to be good enough. Fortunately for them, given recent events I can't appropriately make a trite "We can send a man to the moon, but we can't…" comment. Of course this doesn't reflect the opinion of my employer. I'm sure that the RHN outage made me look much worse than it does Red Hat. </BODY> </HTML>