False alarm.

On edit: Seems normal now.

Please ignore the following.

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Test post. I've seen no change in GD for quite some time, after about 15 minutes of not connecting to DU at all.

At least two double OP's...

We seem to be back....

And there many before the CIA

Stil see bellow... Seems this is not just du



I just got an email from work that says there's "internet backbone routing issue" causing extreme slowness in many areas.

"Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." -Chief Seattle

Direct quote from a post bellow on this thread... Either a serious failure...or a cyber attack.

.... as in "Obama has ordered a DOS attack on DU by the CIA after a surge of anti-Obama threads, attempting to shut them down like wikileaks" ;)

I am going to go try to find more on this.

Thanks

Seems this is a regular feature, as in more cyber regular than usual...

Somebody is playing games.

It looks like Democraticunderground.com is hosted by DCANet, or is at least in their IP address space and administrative control (from an Internet routing perspective). Tracing to www.democraticunderground.com while this outage was occurring, it looks to me like the problem was at a "carrier hotel" (a facility where large Internet carriers meet and send and receive traffic from one another). The last "hop" I could reach was dcanet.ge2-4.br01.phl02.pccwbtn.net, which is a router owned by PCCW Global and connecting to DCANet's router. This is where the traffic died. I tried the same trace from a different source on the Internet (a public bgp route server), and got the same result. Now that the site is back up, it can be seen that the traffic is now passed along to core-2-gig-vlan-500.hq.dca.net, a router owned by DCANet, the people who host at least the IP addresses for DU.

So, although it's possible it was just DU that was affected, it's much more likely that everyone hosted by DCANet was down for awhile.

I had heard that Time Warner had a major west coast outage earlier today. Right now, everything looks good at all major peering points, or handoffs. Here's a pretty useful tool, if anyone's interested in looking at major outages, latency between carriers, and network availability of major Internet players (i.e., the backbone).

http://www.internethealthreport.com/Main.aspx?Metric=TCP