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Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
internettrafficreport.com
Was this a planned outage? Perhaps some hardware being decommissioned, and BGP routes not being updated? Surely there is a better answer then, "LOL, Chicago O'Hare got snowed in."
Regardless of any of that, I'm pretty sure some heads are going to roll. I mean, who runs a router THAT important, and can have a 3 day blackout without anyone noticing?
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/of0lu/wtf_is_goin...
It starts exactly at 1/1/2012 it seems, looks like a measurement problem to me
http://internethealthreport.net/ shows that everythings fine according to their data.
Does anyone else think it's highly suspicious that this all started occurring on Jan. 1st? Was this a planned outage? Perhaps some hardware being decommissioned, and BGP routes not being updated? Surely there is a better answer then, "LOL, Chicago O'Hare got snowed in." Regardless of any of that, I'm pretty sure some heads are going to roll. I mean, who runs a router THAT important, and can have a 3 day blackout with…
Or the problem could be local to North America only.
The way that particular website works is people submit routers to be pinged, they ping them every 5 minutes, and graph the results. That's it.
It's not in any way an accurate view of the Internet's performance as a whole.