220px|Logos of various Wikimedia projects Wikipedia, the well-known free-to-edit encyclopedia, suffered a period of extended downtime as of approximately 10:00 UTC, following a failure of the primary DNS/NFS server, which caused numerous cascading failures on other servers within the Wikimedia cluster. To prevent future problems and to protect the integrity of data, editing was shut off for 2: 47 minutes. Meanwhile, technical staff worked to restore several squid cache servers and to reduce the dependencies on NFS mounts.
220px|Logos of various Wikimedia projects Wikipedia, the well-known free-to-edit encyclopedia, suffered a period of extended downtime starting approximately 10:00 UTC, following a failure of the primary DNS/NFS server, which caused numerous cascading failures on other servers within the Wikimedia cluster. In order to prevent future problems and to protect the integrity of data, editing was shut off for two hours and 47 minutes. Meanwhile, technical staff worked to restore several squid cache servers and to reduce the dependencies on NFS mounts.
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