anyone else notice the internet(s) shutting down?

[thumperton]

I frequent a pretty massive board, and the consensus has been that major sites like google, wikipedia, and few others have been down today for at least a couple hours.<br><br>what do you guys think. co-ordinated attack? is this a precursor to internet 2??<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://pichold.com/Images/Smilies/ohnoes.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[pugzleyca3]

I'm having trouble even typing tonight, like there's a hesitation between pecks, if you know what I mean. Sites down all over the place earlier. Some still down. I wonder what's up with that?<br><br>Very weird. But I have no idea what it is. Even Coast to Coast made a comment about it tonight, Noory said that he thought something was going on, they were having probs. earlier, too.<br><br>And this board was inaccessible for awhile, too. <br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[bamabecky]

Could it be, so many people are turning to the Internet (heavy use) to read about the Investigations and coming Indictments (and hurricanes)? Gosh I hope that's all it is?<br><br>Bama <p></p><i></i>

[anonymouse]

Level 3 and Verio were both at > 180 ms latency last night -- in the future you can check here to see what's going on:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://scoreboard.keynote.com/scoreboard/Main.aspx?Login=Y&Username=public&Password=public">scoreboard.keynote.com/sc...ord=public</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Rigorous Intuition]

FWIW, Yahoo is timing out on me this morning. <p></p><i></i>

[hmm]

most people dont seem to realise "the internet" is a losely connected group of seperate for-profit corperate networks held together by little more than greed and duct tape.. <p></p><i></i>

[nomo]

For as long as the internet existed, it has always experienced slow-downs and malfunctions. Just because you can't get to Yahoo one day doesn't mean the thing is being dismantled. <br><br>Remember the fits of paranoia when Alex Jones's sites were unreachable a while back? Duct tape and greed, indeed. <br><br> <p>--<br>When all else fails... panic.</p><i></i>

[professorpan]

Has some answers:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/21/0958232&threshold=1&tid=215&tid=95">slashdot.org/article.pl?s...215&tid=95</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[thumperton]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> most people dont seem to realise "the internet" is a losely connected group of seperate for-profit corperate networks held together by little more than greed and duct tape..<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->if that's the case, we probably need some kind of governing body to make sure this never happens again.<br><br>we all know how dangerous and undependable the freemarket is. <!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://pichold.com/Images/Smilies/hahano.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>this thing smacks of the California 'de-regulation' of electricity. <p></p><i></i>

[thumperton]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Remember the fits of paranoia when Alex Jones's sites were unreachable a while back? Duct tape and greed, indeed. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->that was legit. his site was being invidually targetted, and it was only after enough people raised a stink that the problem was 'fixed'. <p></p><i></i>

[nomo]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>that was legit<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I have no doubt that Alex Jones is being targetted. Well, sometimes, at least. But the incident two weeks ago that I'm referring to was a well publicized feud between two large backbone providers.<br><br>Plus, I don't think the PTB will ever "shut down" the Internet. It's the most powerful way of spreading FUD and disinfo they've got... <p>--<br>When all else fails... panic.</p><i></i>

[thumperton]

They need a way to usher in government controlled Internet 2 by convincing us that Internet 1 is fragile because its held together by 'duct tape and greed' <p></p><i></i>