Is something wrong in the force this morning? (Strange internet?)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

UPS package tracking and several industruial related links don't seem to be working or are very very slow.

anyone else seeing anything like this?

[bananas]

1. Yeah - it was slower a little while ago

it seems back to normal
DU wasn't loading images
some other sites also seemed slow

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. It's been nuts from my end. but variable.

I thought it was my computer or a few sites at first, but checks seemed to say my IP was fine.

A Canadian site and UPS seemed to be down and like you, DU seemed to be quirky.

[bananas]

6. I thought I might've had a signal problem

but I was listeing to an audio stream without interruption.
Some web sites weren't connecting.

[foo_bar]

2. udp or udp not, there is no retry

[shaniqua6392]

4. Same thing here....

about 30 minutes ago nothing would load for me. I thought there was something wrong with my connection. It seems to have stopped now. I can not help but be a bit suspicious when my internet starts acting weird. I am sure I am just being paranoid, but I can't help but wonder sometimes.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. I've never seen it behave this way before in 7 years of broadband...

or the previous with dial up.

It seemed strange and some sites remain the same.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Okay, it's getting stranger. Now my email server can't keep a stable

connection.

But other sites are still working well...

Some kind of strange connectivity degradation?

[Burried News]

8. New NSA recruit on the job ...

No problems in NC. She's wunner us.

[rhino47]

9. I can not get the age *australia* and ebay to load.

That is weird.I thought it was my suck ass dsl service.

[laruemtt]

10. one of my employers

in wv said the connectivity in the whole region was out. i was trying to access the server from here in the caribbean and could not stay connected. never saw that happen before as far as the connectivity for the whole region being out.

[AzDar]

11. This happened to me last night. I actually had Hubby check over

my computer; I thought my wireless mouse was malfunctioning. He found nothing...of course, I think the worst. I'm so paranoid these days..

[Jose Diablo]

12. Internet Traffic Report

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm

Looking it over, I'd say Venezuela is isolated, Iran has experienced something last night and Singapore also experienced something last night.

It appears N America is doing ok though, router wise.

Maybe the DNS is messed up on your BB server? Have you tried a ping on your DNS server?

Here is a nice little network tool if you are into that sort of stuff:

http://www.samspade.org/ssw/

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. Ping was fine... Just seemed to be a lot of sites that wouldn't load.

[Jose Diablo]

14. If your still seeing problems, what you might want to try

is pinging those sites and running traceroutes to find the last reporting good router. From the sounds of what you are describing it sounds like it's closer to your end of the virtual connection.

What I have noticed sometimes, even going into DU is the immediate upchain router at the destination end will for some reason stop routing to certain IP blocks. Routing table problem maybe? Or maybe one of several servers tank, thus only certain queries block. But if you see it into more than one site, again it points to a problem closer to your end.

I never know why specifically, the paranoid in me says somebody has messed with the routing tables, but I have seen parts of the network just 'black out' for some reason. I wouldn't say it's not some echelon sampling going on, and maybe the analyst screwed-up restoring the network back the way it's supposed to be.

It doesn't seem like it could be certain glass tubes going dark because I thought the packet network bypassed dead paths automatically and the glass tubes all have hot standby's. So I doubt it's 'backhoe fade'.

I imagine the network person responsible and on duty could give more definitive answers to why certain IP blocks just 'blackout'.