Internet "Brown-out???"

[Fraser Campbell]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 14:19, Christopher Browne wrote:

> I'm noticing that things are not entirely "responding well" this
> afternoon.
>
> I was trying to get at a webmail account at Yahoo, and they don't seem
> to responding.  Ditto for Google.com/Google.ca.  That could conceivably
> be Sympatico's fault.

Probably, I've been doing on and off "the net" for the last hour and haven't 
noticed any problems.  Went a few a security sites and Google news, it sounds 
like the super worm hasn't hit us yet, needs a few more days perhaps.

> They also don't respond from "the office," which wouldn't be.

Strange Mr. Li was kind enough to auto-respond to my TLUG post a few minutes 
ago ;-)


> I can get at such places from a server I can get at in Texas...
>
> Is it possible that some Canadian routing tables are mussed up???

Everything seems fine with istop and with a bunch of servers that I connect to 
on various other ISPs.

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