[LINK] Webserver unavailability patterns

[Adam Todd]

At 08:22 3/10/02 +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>Have any other linkers noticed an increase in unavailable websites?  Just 
>now I've been trying to do a bpay and the westpac site stopped 
>responding.  Then to see if it was just them, I tried ABC.net.au/news - 
>also not responding. Then I tried another .au site and it came up just 
>fine, as did a US based .com site.  I've even closed and reopened the 
>browser to be sure it wasn't hung up.
>
>I'm just curious if there is something going on with network connections 
>to some of the main big sites in Australia.

Have you tried tracing to the servers using traceroute from your PC or a 
web based traceroute?

It's not uncommon for a major ingress point to fail for a few minutes (or 
days in one recent case) that takes a lot of primary routing out.

I use to have a list of who was connected to where but it changes so much 
these days it was impossible to keep up to date.

Maybe I'll write a tracer that logs paths and we can then monitor the 
connection points :)  Map the Aussie Internet :)


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