[LINK] guardian down?

[Stilgherrian]

On 15/12/2010, at 10:55 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> I can't see the guardian anymore from here.  http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.guardian.co.uk says it's just me but traceroute tells me the block appears to be in or after Hong Kong.

It was about routing, not "Guardian down". For a while it was not visible, and now it's back. Word is most of Australia and parts of South-East Asia were affected. Routed were going as far as their hosting provider, prolexic.net, which is a provider of defences against DDoS attacks.

At this stage there's no word on whether their was an attack being defended against, downtime as they switched the routes, our just a random error. However the paranoid kiddies were screeching about "Australia is filtering the Guardian". Arsehats.

I thoroughly recommend http://www.downforeveryone.com/ as a starting-point.

Stil


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