[TriLUG] OT: Internet routing infrastructure problem? (was "new mailing list?")

[Chris Hedemark]

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 14:02, Marc Johnson wrote:
> i-cant-access-my-favorite-online-business-can-you?
> 
> we seem to be getting a lot of this lately ...

No, just Amazon.com.

But I've been wondering lately if there are some big infrastructure
problems right now on the 'net.  I get blazing fast access to some
sites, but others (like Amazon.com) appear to go down when you & I both
know they almost certainly have taken the belt & suspenders approach to
networking.

Earlier today I couldn't get to msnbc.com *or* cnn.com (at the same
time) yet other sites were up.

Mail that I am sending to known good addresses, using an SMTP server
that is *not* part of the AOL/Time-Warner network, is timing out or
bouncing.

Last night I couldn't even get to www.trilug.org, and after touring the
data center it is located in I have a hard time believing the problem
was at the head end (unless the server itself went down, and after a
quick ssh into fatalpha I see he's been up for an impressive 282 days
without a hitch).

It's easy to blame the roadrunner network, until you realize that I'm
getting to some sites fine and not others.

Is it just me?  Other roadrunner users seeing this?  Other
non-roadrunner users seeing this?

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