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RE: UNITED.COM (United Airlines) has been down for days! Any info on this?

  • From: Grant A. Kirkwood
  • Date: Thu Sep 01 14:39:58 2005

Henry Yen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote:
> > 
> > John Palmer wrote:
> > >
> > >The United Airlines website appears to be down and has 
> been down for days.
> > > 
> > >Is this a network issue or are they out of business??
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Neither.. just systematic and ongoing web development incompetency.
> > 
> > http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467617
> > 
> > http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467121
> > 
> > http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=468034
> > 
> > etc....
> 
> This problem (or its close relative) was discussed on nanog 
> less than three months ago:
>    http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-06/msg00034.html


Their problems go far, far beyond just DNS. They have had consistent
problems for well over a year. Basic stuff--- like booking a ticket. It's no
wonder they can't get out of bankruptcy.






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