NTL was down last night too.

But, just for fun, I tried one web address

 http://www.gchq.gov.uk

and it was through in a flash.

Very interesting, I thought. Try it next time you find your internet connection slowing to a crawl-- I've somehow always found my connection to GCHQ to work marvellously!

BT Broadband was down too. It only seemed to affect none uk sites though. Could get through to most uk ones (could just have been getting through to the cache).

However, when i used a proxy ip address on the net, i go through to all sites i wanted.

I think it was something like the uk's main backbone DNS servers were down.

Seemed big.

Sorry conspiricists, it was prolly a damaged undersea cable:

 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34204.html

because the media are always sooo right...

but wait, even if it was a pipe that got f**ked

they (see below)
continued to port scan
all through last night

Verio inc.
OrgName: Verio, Inc.
OrgID: VRIO
Address: 8005 South Chester Street
Address: Suite 200
City: Englewood
StateProv: CO
PostalCode: 80112
Country: US


verio works as security (ie. snooper) for blueyonder and others? (any info?)

they were still watching the web junkies reactions to the shutdown
you can bet...


paranoids or adanoids?
mark oderbeest

"HARTSVILLE, TENN - Newly released documentary and eyewitness evidence now links an apparent July 6, 2001 electronic warfare attack on a radio station and weekly newspaper in Hartsville, Tennessee to a nearby unacknowledged secret access project (USAP). This secret project, eyewitnesses say, includes the U.S. Air Force as paymaster, U.S. government aircraft as transportation and security craft; military troops in black uniforms; and black unmarked triangular aircraft. The project may also include a secret electronic warfare unit capable of disabling nearby media outlets with destructive electromagnetic energy. "

more here

 http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews31.html

hmmm...

never happen in the UK no , never...
er...