Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

Hi All,

I have been getting a lot of calls lately about poor
Internet service from customers.  Mostly it is during
one of the DDOS attacks, like the one recently
on Spamhaus.

Does anyone know of a site that gives status on
this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to
hear it on the news?

Took a trip over to us-cert.gov,  but could not
find anything useful (doesn't mean it was not there,
just that I had no luck finding it).

Many thanks,
-T

Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[zxq9]

On 04/14/2013 11:07 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

Does anyone know of a site that gives status on
this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to
hear it on the news?


http://www.internetweathermap.com/
Visualization of aggregated latency times in various regions. I haven't 
used this one much so I don't know how accurate its stats are VS the way 
things feel at the user level.


http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
Anything disruptive enough to impact a region or large ISP will usually 
show up here, but it doesn't carry much detail.


The only reliable way to test things is check point-to-point, of course, 
but most of the time users saying the "internet" is slow means "latency 
between me and one of Facebook, Google, YouTube, Vimeo, or [favorite 
game server] is slow" so point-to-point checks don't always make sense 
and a general traffic report might not provide any heads up.

Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/13/2013 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote:

On 04/14/2013 11:07 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

Does anyone know of a site that gives status on
this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to
hear it on the news?


http://www.internetweathermap.com/
Visualization of aggregated latency times in various regions. I haven't
used this one much so I don't know how accurate its stats are VS the way
things feel at the user level.

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
Anything disruptive enough to impact a region or large ISP will usually
show up here, but it doesn't carry much detail.

The only reliable way to test things is check point-to-point, of course,
but most of the time users saying the "internet" is slow means "latency
between me and one of Facebook, Google, YouTube, Vimeo, or [favorite
game server] is slow" so point-to-point checks don't always make sense
and a general traffic report might not provide any heads up.



Thank you!

Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi All,

I have been getting a lot of calls lately about poor
Internet service from customers.  Mostly it is during
one of the DDOS attacks, like the one recently
on Spamhaus.

Does anyone know of a site that gives status on
this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to
hear it on the news?

Took a trip over to us-cert.gov ,  but could not
find anything useful (doesn't mean it was not there,
just that I had no luck finding it).

Many thanks,
-T



On 04/13/2013 08:19 PM, John Hebert wrote:> See the external links at 
the bottom of

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack.
>
> Those customer's PCs may be infected and part of the DDoS botnet.


Uh oh!  I wonder.

Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[Paul Robert Marino]

In direct answer to your question oddly enough twitter seems to be the site find out about this kind of thing quickly.-- Sent from my HP Pre3On Apr 14, 2013 4:36 PM, Todd And Margo Chester  wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
>> > wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have been getting a lot of calls lately about poor
>> Internet service from customers.  Mostly it is during
>> one of the DDOS attacks, like the one recently
>> on Spamhaus.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a site that gives status on
>> this sort of thing, so I do not have to wait to
>> hear it on the news?
>>
>> Took a trip over to us-cert.gov ,  but could not
>> find anything useful (doesn't mean it was not there,
>> just that I had no luck finding it).
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T


On 04/13/2013 08:19 PM, John Hebert wrote:> See the external links at 
the bottom of
 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack.
 >
 > Those customer's PCs may be infected and part of the DDoS botnet.


Uh oh!  I wonder.

Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

On 2013-04-15 15:15, Paul Robert Marino wrote:

In direct answer to your question oddly enough twitter seems to be the
site find out about this kind of thing quickly.


Twitter yes, but what to follow?

--
RMA.

Re: Anyone know of a status site for the Internet?

[David Sommerseth]

On 16/04/13 06:45, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> On 2013-04-15 15:15, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>> In direct answer to your question oddly enough twitter seems to be the
>> site find out about this kind of thing quickly.
> 
> Twitter yes, but what to follow?

Not necessarily follow ... ask on twitter and provide some relevant
hashtags, like #scientificlinux


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth