>>>>> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com>
>>>>> on Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:26:23 -0500 writes:
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Martin Maechler
<maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>> Maybe this is just from inside ETH Zurich,
>> but I haven't seen this before in many years:
>> for > 15 minutes now, for me and at least someone else here,
>>
>> - Google (incl. Gmail, calendar..) is entirely unreachable
>> - Twitter is "connecting" and is not reached (in the browser),
>>
>> - three major Swiss news(paper) websites (20min, TA, NZZ) are out
>> of reach,
>>
>> but "of course" the ETH web sites are fine for me (but I'm inside ETH)
>> and notably,
>>
>> www.r-project.org ,
>> bugs.r-project.org,
>> cran.r-project.org
>> developer.r-project.org
>> svn.r-project.org
>>
>> are all fine and up... an eerie feeling indeed.
>>
>> Martin
> Martin,
> No problems for me accessing either Google or Twitter. The Twitter Status
page:
> http://twitterstatus.tumblr.com/
> is not showing anything nor is the Twitter Support account:
> https://twitter.com/Support
they (and google and all the rest) came up quickly after I sent
the message.
But note that e.g. developer.* and bugs.* are also US-hosted
and were quickly accessible at the same time could not even
access some Swiss sites.
> That being said, I just got your post, almost an hour after you sent
it...according to the e-mail headers, the bulk of the delay was within the ETHZ
domain, between phil2.ethz.ch and hypatia.math.ethz.ch.
yes, and that is only indirectly related,...
The mail / mailman list processing sometimes gets bogged down a
bit, as we've seen before.
> Regards,
> Marc
Thank you, Marc, for your reassuring reply.
Consider this thread as a ``peculiar Thursday evening coincidence''
that really should not bother anyone reading R-devel..
Martin
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