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Tier One ISPs Dying
xbmodder writes "Two tier one ISPs are down today. At about 23:30PST both Verio and Level 3 starting having problems with routes. According to Level 3 this is a software upgrade gone awry. Is this the end for Level 3?" Many, many reports about this are coming in, and if you're wondering why the stories were rather sparse overnight, it's because it's difficult to post them without internet access. Hope everyone else is back online too.
Maybe I'll get some work done today for a change.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
Is there a term for this kind of intermittant site inaccessability due to Internet outage -- not the user or the server being offline, but the Internet failing?
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
It's nice to see something explaining why I was paged at 2:30am. And now, to whom from Level3 do I send my bill?
But what is a tier 1 ISP?
Is that like a bandwidth wholesaler or something?
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Today i was playing world of warcraft and on our raid about 25% of my guild mates lost their internet on and off. Other than that the lag was higher than normal but i wondered what the hell was going on. Anyway we still pwn some dragons in BWL :)
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
Yep the BSD trolls about BSD is dying are coming true, it is obvious that the ISPs were using BSD, and therefore the internet is dying.
Screenshot of My G5 desktop!
I prefer carrier pigeons.
Has Netcraft confirmed this?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Tier One
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
Hey look, we slashdotted Level 3!
I notice the article links back to Slashdot... I wonder is Slashdot is going to get BoingBoing'ed?
Because you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"
Is this the first time this has happened? Is it too early to start talking about re-thinking the way this is put together?
useless sig advice - Read Nabokov.
Why couldn't this have happened during my business day? For just once when a user calls and asks "is the internet down?" I'd like to be able to say "actually, yes, it is."
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I guess they decided not to go out of business today afterall. Imagine that.
Don't you get it? They deleted the internet!!
Yeah, I remember life before the internet. I used to read books, watch TV, and even occasionally go outside under that big yellow face.
*shiver*
More like the CIA is upgrading their equipment.
...and not one Netcraft joke?
This joke is dead.
or we'll have a live example of what ife without the Internet is like.
Way to remind the rest of us we're old, young whipper-snapper!
Why in my day, we didn't have the Internet! You'd have to carry your packets to your neighbor's house so he could copy them to his computer, and that was networking. Of course without the Internet, we didn't have IP, we only had P. Thus the phrase, "I'm going to go take a P" -- as in "I'm going to take this data to my friend's house."
See, I bet they didn't teach you that in school. We old people know things!
First you fail to create a good link, and then that link goes to a login screen? Your link posting rights have been removed.
I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow...
Yes, that's exactly what this is. You better curl up into the fetal position in the corner and start crying.
Is there any way we can blame Microsoft for this?
Were they upgrading to one of the Beta builds of Windows Vista Home Edition?
This is like the 21st century equivalent to pulling the fire alarm in school in order to get out of taking a test.
I can't take the test, professor. The sites with the study guides were Slashdotted this morning!
You deserve an A for shrewdness.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I'm not back online
So the EU wasnt kidding!
"In the game of life, someone always has to lose. To me, if life were fair, that someone would always be Oklahoma." -DKR
"Like anyone can ever know that Napoleon."
Glad to see that Tier 1 ISPs are joing the ranks of BSD and Apple.
The Anti-Blog
yeah
AccountKiller
even occasionally go outside under that big yellow face.
No! Not... The Big Blue Room!
I could easily fix this problem. I would just restore it from the Recycle Bin.
Some people call it the "scareball"....
"Lack of technical competence coupled with the arrogance of power, as usual, leads to no good end."
Fool! Its not a big yellow face!
THE MOON IS ON FIRE!!!!
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I got the DTs(delerium telnets) from not getting my fix last night...
That's no moon...
No you idiot, it's because we block you on sight.
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
Don't blame him! This was a software upgrade gone awry.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
Come on, this is SlashDot.
It should be:
Of course this leads to Frapping which is the process of getting an iced drink at the Starbucks down the street, waiting for your packets to arrive.
Remember kids, if you're going to Google "flapping," please don't forget the letter L like I just did.
Although my brain was rapidly cycling between two invalid states after looking that up.