Users stuck in a loop, unable to log in at all

Last night was absolutely bizarre!

Over a period of a couple of hours I kept trying to log in.  Each time the dialog would appear and I would enter my password.  Then, the login system went into a loop.  Here is a sample showing the sequence of URLs involved.  The window title (Os X, Safari) kept showing "Redirecting...".

http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl=http://forums.adobe.com/login.jspa&loc=en (Redirecting) https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl=http://forums.adobe.com/login.jspa&loc=en Back to http://forums.adobe.com/login.jspa ...and looping between the following URLs... http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=ca&returnurl=http://forums.adobe.com/login.jspa&loc=en

At times, the second URL would contain hex-encoded characters (%20, for example).

This morning it look over a minute to get to the main index page.

As i've been saying.... Jive's a jiving!!

All,

There was a networking change implemented at Jive's data center that affected users' ability to login, which caused the login loop that many of you saw as well as delays in outbound emails. They estimated that this was resolved at 3:30am PST. This had nothing to do with our scheduled downtime tomorrow.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Looks like these Jive A$$ forums were jiving around again.... couldn't log in (and i think it applies to anyone who had to log in afresh) for definitely more than six hours. Suddenly, in again and without having to log in...

This is probably all in anticipation of tomorrow's great 'Forums Update' <sfx>drum roll and trumpets</sfx>

I was suddenly logged out and got stuck in the never-ending redirect loop.

Looks like someone intervened.  Thank you very much. 

Suddenly, I am in now.