[41607] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Tue Sep 11 17:15:53 2001
To: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@sockeye.com>
Cc: "deeann mikula" <deeann@telerama.com>,
"Charles Sprickman" <spork@inch.com>,
"Avi Freedman" <freedman@freedman.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:18:16 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:41:39 +0100
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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>The problem seems to be site limiting, rather than network limiting. i.e.,
>news sites are being overloaded, which is causing slow or no response to
>http queries due to either server overload (my guess) or news site transit
>link overload (also possible). This is what seems to be causing lacking of
>response to news sites, instead of generalized network or peering
>congestion.
I can concur. Network running fine (busy, but not full). Servers *very*
busy. I am amazed how few network outages in NYC I am hearing about.
Simon
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