The login screen for second life is broken at the moment. It looks like this on the right. No word from Linden lab just yet, but the cause is the squid proxies that are used to take the load off backend services (they're running in reverse-proxy mode for all you cache-coherence geeks out there).Looks like a simple misconfiguration that's preventing the edge servers from pulling data.
What? English? Basically the web-servers that provide this too you are actually fronting for and caching data from an internal service. Which they are presently unable to talk to. It's no biggie, and won't stop you getting into SL. No need for panic. When the right monkey gets to it, it should be a ten minute fix.
[UPDATE: 8:30am - Cyn Linden acknowledges the issue here, sans the technical info.]
[UPDATE: This was resolved later in the day. Cyn didn't provide a timestamp, however, so we can't say when.]
1. First monkeys, and now squids? Next thing you know, they'll be trying to hire uploaded lobsters to run the customer service team.
Posted at 2:34PM on Jun 15th 2007 by Ananda