Unable to access GN for several hours

i have the site saved in the address bar as guitarnoise.com, and it's been working fine this whole time.

Humm.. well that is even more fishy cause Smokindog and Cnev are/were having the same problem as me.

Ahh well, I punched out at noon and I suck at networking stuff anymore anyways.

Thanks BZ

Geoo

Same happened to me Geoo. I'd get the hosting site page instead. I finally tried from IE and got it though, so I thought maybe I couldn't get here because of Firefox at first. Now I'm at home, using Firefox, with no problems. Probably a temporary DNS issue or something.

Jason

I'm guessing faulty router that got fixed in a hurry.

Maybe it was related to the disagreement between Cogent and Level 3 Communications, who have stopped passing traffic between each other.

I've had issues connecting with other websites, too. As mentioned above, I think it has something to do with this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/05/2247207

yes. I got the URL lost notice several times.

so I went home and played my guitar instead of yaking on the web.

Sounds like I had it the worst. It went down for me sometime just after lunch yesterday, and I couldnt get on at 6 last night (from home). I just gave up and decided to try again this morning.

Interesting. I lost Internet connectivity at home starting Tuesday night which continued until yesterday. Maybe my ISP was affected by what was mentioned in that Slashdot article. (Nice to see other Slashdot readers too!)

Jason

It happened with me that GN never was updated whenever i opened it.So i did duplicate posting that got many :evil: .Now i know all about this , yes , sometimes not only GN , the whole internet behaves erratic :x

I think it was just problems with the server. When youtried to goto guitarnoise you got diverted to Lunarpages who I beleive is the host.

At work I still get lunarpages, unless I use IE (which I hate).

Happened to me too. Tried for guitarnoise but got lunarpages instead. However, I saw they had an online support thing on their site so I asked them. For some reason the IP-address for guitarnoise had been changed and it takes a couple of hours for the change to get registered at different DNS-servers round the world.
Glad it works now so I dont have to type 216.227.214.104 when trying for GN.

\Henry

Here's the scoop from ZDNET:
Two major Internet backbone companies are feuding, potentially cutting off significant swaths of the Internet for some of each other's customers.

On Wednesday, network company Level 3 Communications cut off its direct "peering" connections to another big network company called Cogent Communications. That technical action means that some customers on each company's network now will find it impossible, or slower, to get to Web sites on the other company's network.

William Steele, a senior network engineer for Syncro Services, said his company noticed the problem Wednesday morning.

"There are some people I can't send an e-mail to," Steele said. "At home, I have Road Runner as an ISP, and wasn't even able to remotely connect in order to manage our servers."

"Peering" arrangements are maintained by network companies that agree to connect their networks directly together to exchange traffic more efficiently. When the companies are of roughly equal size, money rarely exchanges hands.

Level 3 contends that its arrangement with Cogent is no longer financially viable, since it is larger than the other company. It has asked Cogent to seek other arrangements, possibly including paying for the traffic exchange, a Level 3 representative said.

Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer contested that claim, saying that its network is at least as big as Level 3's, and that it makes no sense to pay for the connection. Cogent is offering any Level 3 user who can't get to Cogent sites free Internet service for a year, in an attempt to attract its rival's customers.

"Our goal is to have this problem go away, whether through Level 3 reconsidering or their customers coming to us," Schaeffer said.

The Level 3 representative said the company was unlikely to reconsider its position, however.

The problem is likely to affect only a small number of each company's customers. Many network company customers have several connections to the Internet and can use an alternate connection to reach a site that might otherwise be blocked.

A similar Net blackout happened in 2001, when Cable & Wireless and PSINet were embroiled in a billing dispute.