Looks like dozens of major internet domains are down...

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FWIW - Check the status of 500 of the largest sites on the net.

I just did. Looks like dozens of major internet domains are down...

http://www.inferno2000.com/

-- Powder (Powder@keg.com), December 29, 1999

Answers

They may be offline due to hacking concerns?

Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), December 29, 1999.


Quote from inferno2000.com:

"failed to reach aprox. 36% of the hosts in this list. Sorry for wrong results. We are still working on our checker."

-- jumping to conclusions (is@dumb.thing), December 29, 1999.


OOPS, well I didn't see that the first time I went to the site. I had to refresh to see it. Maybe the checker is actually right? Or maybe they are still working on it. Who knows...

-- Powder (Powder@keg.com), December 29, 1999.

dang.

Check this one, cause it graphs across 24 hours, so gives you a reference for time-of-day variances.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

Current 50%, with 51 1/2% this time yesterday.

Great response time for Northern America, but high packet loss too.

-- Hokie (va@va.com), December 29, 1999.


That site (inferno2000) reported about.com and amazon.com as not responding.

Both worked fine in my browser.

Those are the only ones I've tried, but it looks like they're wrong.

-- Steve (none@yourbusiness.com), December 29, 1999.



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