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Sent this ms. from The Dark Wraith to John Aravosis at Americablog:<br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Something has turned off the lights on the entire BlogSpot server complex. I watched it go down piece by piece over the past hour or so.I was doing the news aggregation for the cycle on blogScream, and my aggregator was in front of the cascading shutdown wave until the very end. I lost only three connects, but they probably didn't have any new headlines tonight, anyway. <br><br>"This isn't something I can go around with my usual backdoor entry tricks: this is at the servers' site. <br><br>"As I said, something has turned off the lights. And these are Google servers. <br><br>"The Dark Wraith is certainly not one to speculate wildly on this kind of event, of course.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>Here is the response I received from John:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Yeah, all of blogger is down, and all of our blogs with it. Very weird."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p></p><i></i>

and this just hours after the rumors of indictments, expounded to 22 indictments forthcoming from the Fitzgerald investigation into the Plame leak...<br><br>Aravosis was one of the first who put the rumors up. I'm sure it's coincidence though... <p></p><i></i>

...got wiped out some months back? It was a massive loss of data and, at the time, EZ Board's people were saying it looked like it had to have been an inside job because it showed understanding of how they did things. At the time I wondered which boards were the real targets--knowing that would tell you who did it, so they just took them all down.<br><br>Hopefully this will be a wakeup call to those who don't realize yet that the Net, that powerful tool for getting information out and linking people, is vulnerable and can disappear. The 'cyber communities' are worthless if they can't get online and no one knows each other in 3D. In my more paranoid moments I've thought the Net itself is just one big honey pot.<br><br>And, Google *is* evil. <p></p><i></i>

at least my traceroutes to blogspot cease @ level3...which is having <br>a spat with cogent...<br><br>if that's gibberish to you it's roughly analogous to two regional bells refusing to interconnect calls from each other, in this case because one wishes to renegotiate the governing interconnect agreement with the other...<br><br>on the otherhand, if it's universally down, then there's trouble afoot...it's unlike google to fail to apologize for making its services available. <p></p><i></i>

but I can't update my own. I see the message that Blogger is down for a two-hour maintenance, which was scheduled to end about 40 minutes ago.<br><br>on edit: looks to be up again now. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 10/5/05 9:50 pm<br></i>

...<br><br>"Peering" arrangements are maintained by network companies that agree to connect their networks directly together to exchange traffic more efficiently. When the companies are of roughly equal size, money rarely exchanges hands. <br><br>Level 3 contends that its arrangement with Cogent is no longer financially viable, since it is larger than the other company. It has asked Cogent to seek other arrangements, possibly including paying for the traffic exchange, a Level 3 representative said. <br><br>Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer contested that claim, saying that its network is at least as big as Level 3's, and that it makes no sense to pay for the connection. Cogent is offering any Level 3 user who can't get to Cogent sites free Internet service for a year, in an attempt to attract its rival's customers. <br><br>...<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.com.com/Network%20feud%20leads%20to%20Net%20blackout/2100-1038_3-5889592.html?part=rss&tag=5889592&subj=news" target="top">Link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>