In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) wrote: >In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (aaron t porter) writes: >> As far as I can tell, it was only DNS that was really dead. I was >> able to get to most sites I knew the IP address for. My last experiment >> with this was about 9:30pm though. > >I don't know the specifics, but I believe it's more than that. It appears >that our connection to OARNET (our Internet provider) has been flakey since >late yesterday afternoon. I'm pretty sure that's right -- I noticed that name lookups were taking forever, so I redefined my client's primary DNS address to the library's, and I got the same response, so I tried pinging some IP addresses I know that lie outside Miami, and got a *lot* of packet lossage. Kent told me that the pager on MIAVX1 was filled this morning with pages going to folks in Networking, complaining that our OARNet connection had gone down. Clayton