Saturday, August 21, 2010

Open thread: Friday night internet crash

Many people have reported a strange loss of internet service Friday night. Major websites such as Yahoo!, Google, and facebook remained available - while many others (including DarkeJournal.com) were not. CenturyLink (aka Embarq aka Sprint) customers seemed to have been affected the most. Does anybody know what happened? Or what could have possibly caused a selective crash?

7 comments:

  1. At approximately 10:00 PM Friday night, I was unable to access Darke Journal or Windows Live e-mail. Facebook seemed to be working although photos were unavailable. My provider is Century Link and as of Saturday morning, no problems.

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  2. Obama caused it. Trying to halt all media that isn't already in the tank wanting to have his babies.

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  3. I know of a few people that had this issue. They cited that Facebook and Google worked, but nothing else. Also with Century Link/Embarq/Sprint

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  4. I have Century Link, with no problems whatsoever last night. Just that very very few were on DarkeJournal when I logged in

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  5. A primary dns server failed.

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  6. It happened to me and I checked the White House website this morning, it was George Bush's fault.

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  7. agre with 1st comment from Alex B. All apply to me, also.

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