Internet problems??

jlgreer1 · #1 11-09-2005, 06:13 PM

I have been running into a lot of choke points since early this afternoon.

Paypal is having problems, Verizon DSL, the mail server at my school, the mail server at Excite, etc....

Is something going on with the Internet at large?

I haven't seen anything on the news.

Jeff

MachineDog · #2 11-09-2005, 06:16 PM

Maybe your ISP?

stevie · #3 11-10-2005, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Is something going on with the Internet at large?

I hope not

As far as I understand it, the internet can only 'fail' if one of 2 things happen. 1) Every ISP and Host decides to go out of business at the same time, or 2) Civilisation comes to an end.

Either way, I'd be rather miffed!

quietFinn · #4 11-10-2005, 09:51 AM

The Internet will "fail" if the DNS servers stop working.

MachineDog · #5 11-10-2005, 10:02 AM

The internet will also "fail" if your ISP is taking a bigger load then it should be.

stonecold · #6 11-10-2005, 10:34 AM

Verizon's Tampa circuts are A K okie dokie.

No problems here.

stevie · #7 11-10-2005, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by quietFinn

The Internet will "fail" if the DNS servers stop working.

As each ISP, host, and gateway tends to have their own DNS then they'd all have to go bye-byes at once for it to be a failure of the internet. Even then the 'net would still be there, the WWW would just be unavailable, unless you knew the IP of the site you wanted

MachineDog · #8 11-10-2005, 11:38 AM

That's why he says "fail". Aswell as you have to connect to a DNS to get anywhere. I have to setup the DNS manually on my PCs because I like to have each PC have it's own dedicated in-network IP instaed of being assigned by the DHCP on the router.

stevie · #9 11-10-2005, 05:28 PM

Aye, that too.

dancerdog3 · #10 11-15-2005, 10:50 PM

I just rebooted the internet. This should fix the problem...