Re: [HACKERS] Web page down (ad server)

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>>> Stupid question Dennis ... what time was this?  Early afternoon my
>>>> time, we had an 'out of disk space' condition that forced me to
>>>> restart the vServers on that machine ...
>>>
>>> Around '2005-11-22 9:00:00 CET'. That would be sometime in
>> the middle
>>> of the night US time. I'll try to remember to get a
>> traceroute the next time.
>>>
>>> It's working now so it's not like it's a big problem.
>>
>> The problem is that the javascript in the banner code is
>> doing a document.write(), which is a sync call ... if there
>> is a break anywhere in the network, or the ads server goes
>> down for maintenance, it jams up the works ...
>>
>> Does anyone know enough about Javascript to know how to
>> re-write it so that its async instead of sync? :(
>
> I'm looking at this. See you on IM :)

*nod*

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