During the wee small hours of this morning I was unable to access my inbox. I was also unable to access my remote shell account. I couldn't access any web sites either. I could not get to anywhere on the internet. I tried with both Arachne and with Lynx386, an alternative DOS browser. Neither browser could access any web page I tried to go to. I am certain that I was properly connected and logged on to my account at my ISP. The problem persisted for a period of about 20 minutes. Then the service suddenly returned to normal. Then I could access any site I wanted to without any problems.
I sent an email to the tech-support people at my ISP to describe the problem I had experienced. I mentioned the date and the time-frame when I had the problem. I asked them if they had temporarily suspended their service during that period for performing routine maintenance and/or system backups. Also I asked them if the ISP had perhaps experienced a denial-of-service attack. They wrote back and thanked me for my email. Also they informed me that they have no idea as to what could have caused the problem. They assured me that they know of nothing that was happening during that time on their end that could have caused the problem. Does anybody here have any ideas as to what could have caused the problem? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
