This was sent to me. I'm just passing it one...
Posted October 31, 2008 02:44 PM
The problems are possibly due to a spat between Cogent and Sprint-Nextel that has literally severed the Internet. It started when Sprint-Nextel cut the service links yesterday afternoon.
You can observe the outage here ("NA") for the 1, 4 and 24 hour periods.
http://internetpulse.keynote.com/Main.aspx?Period=RH24
This isn't an outage, it's a contract dispute.
To my recollection, Auctiva is on the Cogent backbone in N. Cal. Jeff sees the problem, and made comment in another thread. They do have the option to cutover to another backup provider.
Danno