Completely; I'm at Worldcon 09 in Montreal, and the hotel's proxy can't even get the server to reply to its squid. I *could* ping and mtr www.twitter.com, earlier, but now I can't, and downforeveryone concurs. elphaba:/home/jra # mtr -r -c 10 www.twitter.com HOST: elphaba Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 172.16.0.1 0.0% 10 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.1 2. static-68-179-81-65.ptr.tera 0.0% 10 237.7 106.5 18.3 237.7 82.0 3. 172.16.218.254 0.0% 10 275.4 167.3 37.1 361.7 98.8 4. 10.64.194.13 10.0% 10 283.4 148.0 72.2 309.7 92.6 5. 69.156.255.213 0.0% 10 231.4 126.4 30.0 287.5 85.5 6. core4-montreal02_POS6-1.net. 0.0% 10 179.4 104.5 20.2 235.5 65.3 7. Ncore3-montreal02_POS0-4-1-0 0.0% 10 167.6 119.2 12.2 323.6 98.3 8. newcore1-newyork83_so1-0-0.n 0.0% 10 405.4 182.1 52.8 405.4 107.5 9. CORE1-NEWYORK83_POS3-0-0_cor 10.0% 10 353.4 155.5 48.8 353.4 93.0 10. Verio-Peering.net.bell.ca 0.0% 10 340.9 153.3 49.1 340.9 97.9 11. ae-0.r21.nycmny01.us.bb.gin. 0.0% 10 319.6 156.6 62.1 319.6 87.2 12. as-0.r20.asbnva02.us.bb.gin. 0.0% 10 327.4 168.6 98.8 327.4 70.1 13. xe-2-3.r00.asbnva02.us.bb.gi 0.0% 10 395.5 164.0 61.5 395.5 95.4 14. ??? 100.0 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Looks like their upstream borke, to me. Great timing... not that there isn't always *something* going on somewhere. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Start a man a fire, and he'll be warm all night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.