BOOM! there goes WorldCom

Wed Jul 16 20:00:26 UTC 1997

I don't know if it is related, but the Internet today has gone to a
slow crawl, but this could be just UUNet. I was trying to get a site
today and only getting maybe 33bytes/sec. A little traceroute and ping
showed

 traceroute www.bestfares.com
traceroute to www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  corerouter (206.43.30.254)  4.891 ms  0.002 ms  4.640 ms
 2  508.Hssi4-0.GW1.SLT1.ALTER.NET (137.39.167.21)  1.159 ms  0.869 ms 0.808 ms
 3  508.Hssi4-0.GW1.SLT1.ALTER.NET (137.39.167.21)  8.785 ms  3.812 ms 1.476 ms
 4  * 126.Hssi4-0.CR2.ATL1.Alter.Net (137.39.59.185)  293.530 ms 332.660 ms
 5  * Fddi0-0.GW1.ATL1.Alter.Net (137.39.37.67)  395.971 ms  434.364 ms
 6  165.113.99.35 (165.113.99.35)  2373.699 ms  2191.839 ms  2062.897 ms
				   ^^^^^^^^	^^^^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^
matterhorn:~$ ping -s www.bestfares.com
PING www.bestfares.com: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=0. time=2542. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=2. time=6017. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=5. time=3021. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=7. time=2702. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=8. time=2596. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=9. time=2423. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=12. time=2575. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=14. time=2558. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=15. time=2655. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=17. time=2849. ms
64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=19. time=2700. ms