# Is There a General Problem With the Net Tonight?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 23, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-general-problem-with-the-net-tonight/246610 "2004-05-23T03:11:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-general-problem-with-the-net-tonight/246610/21 "2004-05-23T22:11:09Z")

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From another website I visit:

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> An ISP line between Ohio & Pennsylvania was down- anyone who connected through that line couldnt access site- Your ISP was fine- site ISP was fine- but path between was broken. If you dont go on that ISP to connect you are able to see the site- thats why some ppl had no problem & others (like myself) had no access all yesterday and its been going in & out today.

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-general-problem-with-the-net-tonight/246610/22 "2004-05-24T02:37:40Z")

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9:45 pm EDT Boston - DSL connection.

Wow and I thought it was just me.

I unplugged the modem and router, rebooted and unplugged the modem and router again.

I was not able to connect to Excite (startup page), nor my own website.

I could connect to Google and Yahoo - weird.

Everything seems okay now.

I used to have a cable modem but when AT&T had a \*\*\*4 day outage \* \*\* (accompanied by rotten customer service) I told them to shove it. Here’s my sordid story:  
[http://web.archive.org/web/20021209041809/1728.com/att.htm](http://web.archive.org/web/20021209041809/1728.com/att.htm)  
I finally took that webpage off of my website _not_ because of pressure from AT&T’s legal department nor the fact that I suddenly thought AT&T became a paragon of efficiency - those AT&T jerks outright sold their cable modem division to Comcast. AT&T’s cable service sucked, they treated people like crap and then they just outright sell their company. – JERKS !!!

Comparing cable modem to DSL I would say cable is somewhat faster, but DSL is more reliable and much less complicated. With DSL, problems can be fixed easier. I always hated calling AT&T’s alleged “help” line only to waste my time reading Ethernet card address registers (or whatever).

Was that helpful to anyone?

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-general-problem-with-the-net-tonight/246610/23 "2004-05-24T18:48:31Z")

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There has been DoS attack on Akamai serviced sites at least since Sunday night that has been causing problems. See [this Slashdot article](http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/24/1339204.shtml?tid=126&tid=187&tid=95) for more info.

If you do a “ping [www.google.com](http://www.google.com)” you see a hostname something like “[www.google.akadns.net](http://www.google.akadns.net)” reported, which is Akamai’s dns routing system for Google. Check any site you’re having problems with and see if “akadns” shows up in the ping.

Yet Another Reason I Hate Akamai.

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