Internet outage

[Black wallnut]

Anyone know the source of the current internet outage? Several of my daily visited web sites are mia, including my own.

[radhak]

Since I can see your website, and have not seen any problems anywhere else, I can only say one thing :

Pay your bills!

[Tom Hintz]

That can be as simple as a dead router right in your neighborhood and not the Internet itself. Small parts of a county or whole sections of a country can get knocked off for a while with the right combination of router problems. give it a while and try again. They usually don;t last long.
By the way, your site comes up fine for me.

[LCHIEN]

there's no out(*^%$_(*&$

[Rich P]

Just where is the problem?

There area variety of tools to figure out where the "outage" is.

The most basic is "ping" which checks for a heartbeat, but won't tell you where things went wrong along the way.

A better tool is "tracert" on Windows which allows you to view each "hop" as your packets move along this wonderful internet thingy...below is a sample in XP.

Start->Run->cmd and then type in the command:

tracert www.yahoo.com (or where ever you want to wind up).

Tracing route to www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com [209.131.36.158]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 10.30.2.254
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 192.168.1.254
3 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms adsl-71-131-15-254.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [71.131.15.254]
4 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms dist2-vlan60.sntc01.pbi.net [63.203.51.66]
5 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms bb1-g1-0.sntc01.pbi.net [63.203.35.17]
6 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 151.164.38.206
7 10 ms 10 ms 18 ms asn10310-yahoo-10g.eqsjca.sbcglobal.net [151.164.248.58]
8 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms ae0-p161.msr1.sp1.yahoo.com [216.115.107.59]
9 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms te-8-1.bas-a2.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.32.19]
10 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms f1.www.vip.sp1.yahoo.com [209.131.36.158]

Trace complete.

If a given hop fails you will see the breakdown.

I'm sure there are slicker gadgets but this one is usually always available.