>PS: I don't know about connectivity from everywhere else, but gblx.net
>(Global Crossing) has been hosed all day from here which means that we
>can't get to the MetaCard WWW/FTP site and so haven't been able to
>update the 2.3 beta there. Beta 2 is ready for release, but there are
>a few problems with the version we put on that server yesterday that
>unfortunately we were unable to fix today because of the outages.
>Watch this list for the announcement which will come when we've
>straightened this all out. If Global Crossing is still hosed
>tomorrow, we'll move the site someplace else later in the day. Mean
>time, I'd be curious to get the output of a traceroute to
>www.metacard.com from your site just to get some idea of how localized
>the damage is, and how vulnerable the ISP we're using for WWW/FTP
>services is to these kinds of problems.
>
>PPS: I'm sending this message to lists1.best.com instead of
>lists.best.com because DNS services at best.com are screwed up,
>possibly a side effect of the gblx outage. If your messages to this
>list get bounced, you might want to try this too.
>
>********************************************************
>Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com
>MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
Here's what I got from WhatRoute (Mac application) doing trace:
Start: 11/16/99 22:34:51
Find route from: 192.168.11.1
to: www.metacard.com (216.147.65.142), Max 30 hops, 2000 byte
packets
Host Names truncated to 32 bytes
1 ra2.cloud9.net (168.100.1.132 ): 332ms 317ms
339ms
2 darjeeling-e3-1.wpn.cloud9.net (168.100.1.190 ): 352ms 313ms
348ms
3 border2.s1-1.cloud9-1.nyc.pnap.n (209.191.130.69 ): 379ms 392ms
391ms
4 core1.fe0-1-fenet2.nyc.pnap.net (209.191.128.129): 401ms 375ms
313ms
5 sl-gw8-nyc-5-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.190.197): 359ms 376ms
364ms
6 sl-bb10-nyc-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.85 ): 398ms 384ms
381ms
7 sl-bb10-pen-6-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.102 ): 370ms 370ms
484ms
8 sl-bb12-pen-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.153 ): 337ms 358ms
361ms
9 sl-nap2-pen-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.66 ): 369ms 457ms
446ms
10 sprint-nap.iconnet.net (192.157.69.26 ): 432ms 392ms
434ms
11 hssi5-1-0.core1.teb1.iconnet.net (204.245.75.229 ): 453ms 397ms
454ms
12 serial11-1-0.core1.phl1.iconnet. (204.245.69.178 ): 413ms 392ms
433ms
13 serial10-0-0.core1.bwi1.iconnet. (204.245.69.74 ): 448ms 431ms
439ms
14 209.201.44.10 (209.201.44.10 ): 407ms!U *
408ms!U
*Trace completed*
Regards, Andu
