On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Antony Clarke wrote:
> On that fatefull day in the USA, www.cnn.com and most other news sites were
> unreachable for a few hours even to american users with leased lines. Does
I was able to reach CNN a few hours after it started. A bit slow and some
timeouts, but semi-usable. BBC and slashdot were fine, so the backbone was
OK. This was via optusnet.
> anyone know if this was due to bandwith availability or load on the servers?
> Can a connection timeout be caused by more than a bandwith problem?
I think you just answered that - server overload for dynamically generated
pages. Unfortunately, they didnt seem to have an automatic mechanism for
switching to static, low-graphics pages.
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