Who broke the internet?

[French G.]

I'm actually trying to use the internet for productive work and it seems that at a minimum the major search engines are dead. On AOL search I can see a link to a story about an attack, but cannot open the story. Some sites like CCN and Reuters work great, others, like Google, not so much. What gives?

[Jim147]

I haven't had any search problems but my connection has been dead slow all day. Like a 700mb file took four or five hours.

Maybe this is Gore's fault.

jim

[mtnbkr]

I didn't notice any problems.

I would've heard if there was a 'net-wide issue because all of the people sitting behind my firewalls (couple hundred thousand, yes, really) would be lighting up our support lines with calls of "the internet is down".

Chris

[grampster]

Probably several million folks who were in DC on the 12th and 13th who are pointing out the lies about the number of folks that were there being disseminated by the MSM.

[French G.]

Works now, maybe it was local but it seemed weird how some pages worked fine and others would not. You know it's bad if you are using Dogpile and AOL search.

[jackdanson]

You see the internet is a series of tubes.....

[RocketMan]

I didn't notice any problems.

I would've heard if there was a 'net-wide issue because all of the people sitting behind my firewalls (couple hundred thousand, yes, really) would be lighting up our support lines with calls of "the internet is down".

Chris

Would you have rebooted the server?

[GigaBuist]

Best way to verify that the tubes really are broken is to go here:  http://internetpulse.net/

It'll show you if there's an outage somewhere.