Feedburner down again
I just tried unsuccessfully to subscribe to a feed hosted by the annoying bozos at FeedBurner. From my Temboz feed error counters, it seems FB feeds have been failing with 503 errors for at least the last 5 hours or so, par for the course.
Just another reason why outsourcing vital services to the cloud is not always a good strategy.
gondwana ~>GET -eUS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Fooducate GET http://feeds.feedburner.com/Fooducate User-Agent: lwp-request/1.39 GET http://feeds.feedburner.com/Fooducate --> 503 Service Unavailable Connection: close Server: NS_6.1 Content-Length: 62 Client-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:31:18 GMT Client-Peer: 66.150.96.119:80 <HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>An Error Occurred</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <H1>An Error Occurred</h1> 503 Service Unavailable </BODY> </HTML>
Update (2009-04-30):
It is possible the problem lies with my ISP (although I could replicate it at work as well). I can ping FB from my Joyent accelerator but not from home where my Temboz instance runs.
A work-around is to use the newer Google server feeds2.feedburner.com instead. For Temboz, all you need to do is run sqlite3 rss.db and the command:
update fm_feeds
set feed_xml=replace(feed_xml, 'feeds.feedburner.com', 'feeds2.feedburner.com')
where feed_xml like 'http://feeds.feedburner%';