entp The entp has been described variously as the innovator, the originator, the lawyer, the inventor, the explorer, and the visionary.

If you’re following our twitter stream or been trying to use Lighthouse this afternoon, you will have noticed the slowness. It’s been tracked down to a firewall issue on the slices and elevated to an EY support issue. Basically, the slices can’t access the outside world. This is fine for most functions, but breaks down on a few of them. The major one is OpenID. I was astonished to find that it has no concept of timeouts, so requests to openid servers were timing out after several minutes. Yikes. I’ve fixed the code and posted a patch for the ruby-openid folks.

Keep an eye on this post or Twitter for when the firewall issue is solved. And until then, please refrain from using OpenID to log in. Thanks.

Update: And we’re back. The firewalls are syncing up properly now.