REMARKABLE: Major Internet Hubs Offline all over the world since about 4 hours UPDATE: Asia worsening

Hmmmm....

I was using Speed Test to test the speed of my connection to servers around the world:

[link to www.speedtest.net]


On Speed Test, you can choose a server in any place of the world...

My connections to Europe are not normal. Slower than usual...

Forget this remark, this is what he meant with "blade"

[link to www.cisco.com]

I´m such a noob lol.

Still several went down all at once. That is still fishy.

The only reason they did not think it was an attack is because it pointed directly to hardware.

What are the odds that both production and backup fail at the same time? Staggering.

[RESOLVED] - [NETHERLANDS VPS] connectivity issues

19/03/2012 14:37

We are having connectivity issues on all Netherlands nodes, we are currently investigating.

UPDATE #1 : Engineers at the data centre are working to resolve the issue, further details regarding the cause will be released as we get them

UPDATE #2 : The Data Centre has just confirmed this is not an attack as first suspected, engineers are working to resolve the issue, updates will continue as they become available.

UPDATE #3 : There is a fault at the upstream providers side which has prevented restoration of network services, the issue has been escalated.

UPDATE #4 : An engineer has just replaced all the blades on the routers, the DC hope everything should start coming online very soon.

RESOLVED - The faulty network hardware has been replaced and the network has been restored.

Something is not normal with the internet.


The speed of my connection to ISPs in the same city where I live are totally normal.

But the speed of connections to ISPs in other continents are much slower than usual. I'm testing with SpeedTest.

What's a "ute"?

oooh strong words over nothing you fucking limp dick dudly dooright pussy CanadaTard

A 'ute' is a ute is a ute...

I agree 100%

If they're sending the traffic through routers, no wonder there's a bottleneck.

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It was a tool particularly used by pattern makers and staircase makers and consisted of a broad-based wooden hand plane with a narrow blade projecting well beyond its base plate gaining it the nickname Old Woman's Tooth. Although the original hand tool has a few advantages over the power tool equivalent and retains favour with some workers, since about 1960, it has all but been replaced by the modern spindle router, which was designed for the same work, although the first electric hand routers appeared in the years just after World War I.

Further refinement produced the plunge router, invented by ELU (now part of DeWalt) in Germany in the late 1940s. This is even better adapted for many types of work. Today, traditional hand-powered routers are often called router planes. Some workers[1] consider it to be the single most versatile woodworking power tool. Modern routers are often used in place of traditional moulding planes or spindle moulder machines for edge decoration (moulding) of timber.

Damn look at Asian response times now:

[link to www.internettrafficreport.com]

Only Japan, Taiwan and China are still 80+. It´s getting worse.

And even though RIPE reports still reports Green on several nodes - latency IS rising: [link to atlas.ripe.net (secure)]

I agree with Brazil: something is wrong.

Blonde: Is that your USB-stick?

Im in australia and last night about 10 pm- 12 internet would not let me load anything and in the end I went to bed as I couldnt open any pages. Not nice when the net goes down but its fine this morning.

So basically if the net goes down the world comes to a stand still...

a ute is what aussies call what you guys call pickups or trucks...its short for utility vehicle

Whole company infrastructures are built around the Internet - e-commerce.

No orders can be recorded
No emails sent
Plus do not forget Voip like Skype
No chatting
No social networks


I´d say this would be some wakeup call ( if the outage lasted for more than 24 hours)

oh and NZers....sorry kiwi broo who used the word ute lol

Its back up, but I am in Texas and I had
my wifi connection was strong but could not
get anything to load, Mozilla OR Explorer.
It was unusual to say the least...

Glad it is nothing to get conspiratorial
about, but after the shenanigans on the
16th with the executive order one should
not be surprised by anything...

You toliet gazers are always coming up with weird shit. Raise your head up before a turd bumps the end of your nose.

Petrochemicals not delivered
Continential pipelines uncontrolled
Gas stations run dry
Rail system locks up
Financial system locks up
ATMs run out of cash
Grocery stores sucked dry
Home improvement stores sucked dry
ect...

All other international sites i surfed today, the connection is wayyyyy slow. It never been slow before.. . My friends who live in places far away also complained. But when I clicked on glp 2 secs like usual. Only site. Weird shit

maybe we're lucky ?

Internet has been way slow here for days.

Townsville (home town) got hit by a so called mini tornado at about 5:15 am this morning. I was on the net at 4:15 am this morning because I was woken by the wild weather, and no warnings about that at all. First I knew was when I was woken at 6:30 am by my sister ringing from down south to find out if I was okay.

I am still trying to get enough information to decide whether it is safe to go into work this morning or stay home. Outside my front door looks like 'normal' stormy weather but apparently there are over 1,000 homes without power, homes have had roofs blown off, trees and power lines are down, roads are closed due to flooding ....

[link to myspeed.visualware.com] shows Pakistan and Saudi Arabia out - no speed test possible. Sweden from the US works well.

I'm getting 3 mbs out of 8 mbs I paid for...

you have to admit it was funny! :)

My internet just came back on.. my landline phone and internet were off for hours.. im in Georgia, USA

So you think that's what's going on? Someone's attacking hubs?

edit to add:

What if they are shutting down the internet connections from LA? the second article mentioned most of Asia etc. would go down.
Interesting, wonder WHY this is happening now. I'm ScURRD

Last Edited by GeekOfTheWeek on 03/19/2012 06:26 PM

"stupid American"


Why are you on an American forum?


Stupid Canadian.

Hey Chicken Little the sky is falling OMG !!!!

WTF, did you even bother to check out the 30 day network outage chart ?

If you did you would have seen that right now is actually a low period in network outages. See [link to www.internettrafficreport.com]

SANS Institute is not reporting anything out of the ordinary either Infocon status is Green - [link to isc.sans.edu]

You are either dumb or a troll.