[rhn-users] RHN down; again

[Chris Stankaitis]

Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> https://rhn.redhat.com/ gets me a "502 Proxy Error" page and has been 
> like that for about 10 minutes now...
> 
> There was also a brief amount of downtime yesterday.
> 
> And, of course, 2 recent planned outages...
> 
> What's going on at Red Hat with RHN?  Why all the downtime?  When can we 
> expect RHN to start being reliable?  When can we expect Red Hat to treat 
> RHN like the enterprise-class service that your marketing likes to imply 
> it is?  (such as by running it in a highly available configuration and 
> announcing maintenance well in advance...)
> 
> (Update; within the past few minutes the 502 proxy error has been 
> replaced with a "technical difficulties" placeholder)


Keep in mind I have no access to red hat servers beyond the other normal 
RHN users out there but with Update 3 being released this morning 
chances are everyone and their dog are all trying to patch their systems 
at once.... Chill out, lay off the Bawls... mellow out a bit and try 
back later, this happens every time RH releases an update and/or new ISO's.