Significant Packet Loss Across North America

and subsequent traffic drop.

[Jon_King]

I noticed a delay/packet loss problem with many sites earlier this morning. Looking at a Internet traffic report here:

[internettrafficreport.com...]

you will see a rather large packet loss and traffic loss about 8:00 am CST Jun 8 2007. What causes this?

[bcolflesh]

What causes this?

Paris Hilton getting out of jail because she didn't like the food choices.

[Jon_King]

:)

[jtara]

Traffic report FROM where? Your home? Your office? Your web site(s)?

Without more information, it's hard to say. Presuming you ran the report from where your web sites are hosted, I'd guess that your host lost one or more backbone links, and their router and/or technicians failed to route around them.

While most hosts maintain links to multiple backbone providers, traffic is normally directed to specific providers depending on it's destination, according to criteria set by the host - fastest route, least cost, load-balancing, etc.

Their router SHOULD recognize a failure and re-route around it, or at least some technician should get paged and fix the problem. Maybe the technician was on a bender last night. :)

[Jon_King]

jtara, perhaps I misunderstand the report. The above link shows throughput for the entire NA continent, or does it?

If so, yesterday about 8am Central US time I experienced, along with others, a rather strange outage. Strange because I had not seen so many people chime-in about problems on their respective sites all at once before (on another board). I looked at the report and saw a sharp short dip that appeared to affect maybe 10-15% of users across NA.

So, my inquiry was about that and whether or not my feeble mind had gotten it correct.

[jdMorgan]

A frequent cause:

"Mister, I can't read those dire-grams of cyber-op-tick wiring roots, I just drive this here bulldozer and dig a hole where the boss says so."

Jim

[Jon_King]

I should have guessed that but then again I would not have thought the pipes so vulnerable.