The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45662   Message #675890
Posted By: hesperis
25-Mar-02 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Major router down in the US?
Subject: Major router down in the US?
I haven't been able to access ICQ, hero6.com, MSN, AIM, Yahoo IM or email, hotmail, google, practically anything I use regularly, since friday afternoon.

The traceroutes show the trail going over into qwest and then just dying, and I can't get a ping on any of those hosts. I know my friends on other ISPs *can* get into them... but their traceroutes aren't going through qwest.

The even weirder thing is that my own site, which is right *on* the qwest line, loads fine. So maybe it's a problem on the router after qwest? Or maybe there's a confused router, and the sites I want aren't that way at all? (The first traceroutes for hero6.com showed bellnexxia going into qwest, and the last one shows sprintlink???)

Is there anything I can do? The problem doesn't appear to be in the sympatico part of the trail... so I don't know if calling my ISP will do any good. *Cries*

Help?