Was anyone else affected by the outage earlier

Purple.Nightmare

I got home from work yesterday to find that altho my mule was gracefully gathering chunks bugger all else worked. There was some sorta DNS outage as far as i could work out as could access no web sites or even get pop mail and didnt work for me until bout 1ish

ohgodnotanotherone · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:16 am **Post subject:**

Yup ; about same with me....

Only SOME of the real big sites where still Partially reachable ; went on all night......while my mule was happily sending out chunks...

Even kazaa was unaffected for as far as I could see in 30 secs

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:47 am **Post subject:**

Ah, so I wasn't alone :mrgreen:

HTTP would not work AT ALL, but FTP/emule was downing perfectly fine!!!

I could only access http://www.bbc.co.uk, temporarily :cry:

Presumed it was NTL being crap, but obviousley it was a global thing.

Wonder what happened exactly???

But man I was itching to get on HHAH/SR/FH after the outage, sad but addicted (thats me!!!)

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 1:55 pm **Post subject:**

@paul-scream22 why U think i was posting till 03:00 or so

needed my HHAH fix :lol:

thought maybe a DNS prob as couldnt even ping ntls dns servers but believe was much broader prob. what is weird is that icq wouldnt work

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:14 pm **Post subject:**

Did a google/sky news/bbc news search and couldn't find any info on the matter.

Maybe it was just a UK problem, or was the world unable to access http last night?

Any-one know anything further.

Luckily I wasn't waiting on an ebay auction or owt, or I'd a been pissed at missing it?

TaKYoN · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:37 pm **Post subject:**

I was informed by BlueYonder that some major backbone to the US went down, caused havoc and apparently had knock on effects, and yes, DNS servers seems to be shafted to, dunno whether it was directly related or not, but it affected all UK ISP's, maybe foreign ones too.

For the record, my mule kept on ticking but all else died.

Bassline · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:13 pm **Post subject:**

huh?.....it never affected me

TaKYoN · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:37 pm **Post subject:**

Hiya Mr Bassline, I believe BT was not really affected as far as net goes, altho I heard they had many problems with voice calls across the pond.

karstmobile · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:51 pm **Post subject:**

Bassline wrote:

huh?.....it never affected me

Yeah, I think you people have been sniffing too much of the pot and smoking too much of the cocaine. Plus, all that alcohol is making you hallucinate.

Bassline · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 8:08 pm **Post subject:**

TaKYoN wrote:

Hiya Mr Bassline, I believe BT was not really affected as far as net goes, altho I heard they had many problems with voice calls across the pond.

makes a change for British Telecom to actually NOT be affected on the net for a change

i knew sticking with em was better than changing to another ISP :wink:

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:45 pm **Post subject:**

@karstmobile wot alcohol?

hxxp://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34204.html explains that A damaged undersea transatlantic cable is being blamed for causing havoc for Net and phone users in the UK last night.

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