Flies in the soup?
Though this journal is closed here is something too interesting to miss and too LJ-related to write elsewhere.
I resumed reading LJ when the Georgian war broke and I usually log in, just to get rid of the ads. That's why I noticed, ten days ago, that my cute cat-and-mouse userpic was replaced with some vampire-girl. The first thought was that somebody had broken in, but there were no other indications. Well, I deleted the vampire, changed my password, uploaded cat-and-mouse again and forgot about it until a week later I saw this nightmare:
instead of normal mbla userpic. What's more, mbla was unaware and kept telling us that she is still a Newfoundland. So I started looking.
First, I found that userpics (and probably much more) is not anymore serviced by LJ (or soup) servers, p-userpic.livejournal.com is now only an alias:
$ dig p-userpic.livejournal.com
.....
p-userpic.livejournal.com. 300 IN CNAME g1.panthercdn.com.
g1.panthercdn.com. 1 IN A 66.114.48.11
Hm, what the hell panthercdn.com is? Oh my, high performance, cost-effective, highly reliable, infinitely scalable, content delivery network brought to us by the creators of DoubleClick (how fitting for soup with its company mission of monetization of Blogosphere...) They have dozens of servers, so p-userpic.livejournal.com resolves to a different IP from different computers, and apparently only one of their servers is malfunctioning at a time. E.g. mbla picture is wrong only when I look from home, in my office (10 miles down the road) p-userpic.livejournal.com resolves to 66.114.50.84 and there the picture is OK. On the other hand, I saw my vampire only from my office...
A short Google blog search found at least two other users ( halleyscomet and tanoshii_chan) driven mad by the same errors. Support is aware and perplexed (no wonder).
Well, I hope this post might help Support (I'll give them a link). Anybody saw anything similar? Any of my better internet-educated friends have any idea what can be going on?
I resumed reading LJ when the Georgian war broke and I usually log in, just to get rid of the ads. That's why I noticed, ten days ago, that my cute cat-and-mouse userpic was replaced with some vampire-girl. The first thought was that somebody had broken in, but there were no other indications. Well, I deleted the vampire, changed my password, uploaded cat-and-mouse again and forgot about it until a week later I saw this nightmare:
instead of normal mbla userpic. What's more, mbla was unaware and kept telling us that she is still a Newfoundland. So I started looking.
First, I found that userpics (and probably much more) is not anymore serviced by LJ (or soup) servers, p-userpic.livejournal.com is now only an alias:
$ dig p-userpic.livejournal.com
.....
p-userpic.livejournal.com. 300 IN CNAME g1.panthercdn.com.
g1.panthercdn.com. 1 IN A 66.114.48.11
Hm, what the hell panthercdn.com is? Oh my, high performance, cost-effective, highly reliable, infinitely scalable, content delivery network brought to us by the creators of DoubleClick (how fitting for soup with its company mission of monetization of Blogosphere...) They have dozens of servers, so p-userpic.livejournal.com resolves to a different IP from different computers, and apparently only one of their servers is malfunctioning at a time. E.g. mbla picture is wrong only when I look from home, in my office (10 miles down the road) p-userpic.livejournal.com resolves to 66.114.50.84 and there the picture is OK. On the other hand, I saw my vampire only from my office...
A short Google blog search found at least two other users ( halleyscomet and tanoshii_chan) driven mad by the same errors. Support is aware and perplexed (no wonder).
Well, I hope this post might help Support (I'll give them a link). Anybody saw anything similar? Any of my better internet-educated friends have any idea what can be going on?