Any Aussie having trouble accessing sites?
 

Seems a lot of sites are simply timing out tonight. I'm only getting around 50% of sites in the U.S, the U.K and Europe to work.
Did someone trip over the internet plug somewhere?

Yeah me to.

I'm on Bigpond adsl at the moment and read this on the Whirlpool forums:

There is currently a routing issue affecting all Telstra clients (Bigpond and other downstream clients). It appears that Telstra have lost their primary international links. Normally their routes to US sites go via the Pacific, but this is currently routing via Perth and dying at a network in Hong Kong.

I've been getting drop outs for a couple of days, but it was worse today

I am not with telstra.

Something's going on that's for sure. Seems almost everyone is having problems with sites loading. I can even access wordpress.org at the moment. This is really starting to give me the shits as I can't access some of my sites hosted o/s. Can't even access them by ftp.

Apparently (from what I've been reading) the culprit is the 'NS core router to alter.net' so if your isp routes you through them you'll experience problems. Mind you, I'm no techie and it all means nothing to me. All I know is that half the stuff I need to access, I can't.

I'm not having problems accessing sites, I've been having drop outs where I cant connect to anything for about 5 minutes, it's happened 3 or 4 times today

I've been reading that a lot of ppl have been having the same probs. ingers crossed it'll all get sorted. I've only been having trouble accessing sites since around 3pm est this afternoon.

Just read this:

There is currently a routing issue affecting all Telstra clients (Bigpond and other downstream clients). It appears that Telstra have lost their primary international links. Normally their routes to US sites go via the Pacific, but this is currently routing via Perth and dying at a network in Hong Kong.

it's been happening to me for a couple of days

Everything is working fine today. But the last 2 days (late arvo) have been droping out quite a bit. I'm with Netspace.

-N

Still having problems here...can only access around 50% of International sites. I can't even get Wordpress and Wikipedia to load. It's been 24 hours now so it's really giving me (and tons of others) the shits.

any sample url?

Sample urls I can't access?

I cannot get to:
bloomberg.com
gamepark.eu
xfire.com
wordpress.org
getclicky.com

You may be an indirect customer further up the line, they're a major supplier of bw to many ISPs. They used to be the ONLY commercial supplier several years ago. :disgust

This has been going on for 31 hours now. Bigpond are acknowledging the problem but can't give an estimate of when it'll be fixed. Apparently from what I've been reading, it's affecting many more Isp's as well.

I can get to all them sites, I'm with Dodo

Are you still getting dropouts Aussie Rebel?

same problem here too


must be the southern cross cable

I haven't since I made my last post no, are you still having problems?

No problems at the moment (thank goodness), seems it's all be sorted. All was working properly as of Sunday morning when I turned my computer on, though apparently the East Coast had things working a few hours ahead of the rest of the country.