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it's off topic but yea there is currently a lot of loss

http://www.internetpulse.net/

Not to take aware from the obvious serious problem of nuclear fallout, but the connection with NTT is out too: http://www.internetpulse.net/

Also of note for looking at metrics today: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ http://www.internetpulse.net/

From what it looks like, the peering is back up. Internet Health Report

http://internetpulse.net/ .. Are they connected again? The traffic is flowing.

I wonder if Comcast would have the integrity/guts to point the end user to a site like http://www.internetpulse.net/ to explain the problem (assuming that is the problem).

Uh, it has happened. It is news. Reporting it isn't a conspiracy. http://internetpulse.net/ is displaying the connection between the two as being broken

Internet Health Report

Why does this story sound familiar...right, because I've heard it twice before. In 2003 it was AOL who cut them off, then in 2005 Level 3 did the same thing.

While it seems Sprint is to blame here, when I see Cogent on the bad end of this so many times I can't help but wonder how many of these problems are brought on by their own management. It's not too often you get to see a pair of N/A results on the health report, but as you can read that's exactly what happened in 2005 as well.

At first, I was thinking there was a wider internet outage because Google was having problems this morning and so was MSN.. But I guess not.

If you look at this website it shows that there is some issue between SBC and Cogent.

All non-tier-1 ISPs pay the big boys for transit of their traffic based on 95/5 metering. Rogers and Shaw are not Tier-1 ISPs.

seeing problems with quest and verio but nothing exactly major.
http://www.internetpulse.net/

http://www.internetpulse.net/

I'm not affiliated with them in any way, and I'm sure there are other similar sites, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

At this moment there is heavy loading on parts of the US network. Is this related or just a coincidence?

I'd not seen that site - interesting.

FYI, there's a similar one, mainly for North America.

This might be good news for those who wish to take up the slack. The whole internet shouldn't be about several large web sites.

I used to work for Keynote Systems and the hot potatoe routing was of major concern to customers. Many times you see inbound and outbound routes are significantly different due to the "least cost" associated with dollars in a peering relationship. You can see basic peering times from one of their public service sites, Internet Health Report. You can also do a quick one-off measurement from their demo site My Keynote. Check out the diagnostics tab and run some traceroutes from different backbones and you will immediatly see how congestion at major peering points can effect performance.

Here I found a reasonable reference to tell me why I can't "get there from here".

It may not be /.'s fault...

If you're in the SE US you might have had a bit if difficulty getting through. Then again... they did just move.

I've always used Internet Pulse off of the Keynote site. You can drill down to a bit finer detail than InternetTraffic and see what peering points are going haywire. If you've got a subscruption there's always keynote itself too, but I lost mine two jobs ago.

Go here to check for yourself.