Initial network impacts post-US attack 3/19/03

Thu Mar 20 05:21:41 UTC 2003

I've noticed a small upswing in traffic over the last hour or two, and not
to the usual "midnight browsing frenzy" locations.

CNN, Yahoo, MSN, etc., all seem to be responding as usual (CNN had more
latency at noon. Go figure.)

As for sites in Iraq... I feel for the poor tech who pulled "cable rat" duty
this week on whatever colo/CO facilities they have. or had. :-(

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Donelan" <sean at donelan.com>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:03 PM
Subject: Initial network impacts post-US attack 3/19/03

>
> Some major new web sites such as CNN.COM, MSNBC.COM, etc have dropped most
> advertisements from their main web pages.  CNN.COM has switched to its
> "breaking news" format with a truncated main page.
>
> I have not had any difficulty reaching any major US news web site.  Matrix
> and Keynote public graphs show normal latency, drops, etc.  BGP, ASN data
> sources show normal number of prefixes, announcements, withdrawals.
>
> AT&T and Cable&Wireless public network statistic pages show almost all
> major links within normal levels.
>
> However, tonight I am not able to reach the few Iraq servers I know about.
> The servers were reachable on Monday, but I wasn't keeping constant track
> of those servers.  So I don't know when I could no longer reach them.
This
> may just be normal network flakiness, the Iraqi networks aren't very
> reliable on a normal day.
>