SCO site down for well over 2 days
24th August, 2003
Nick Marsh points out that the www.sco.com site has been down for a long time - now over two days so far according to our performance measurements.
At the moment, it is not known whether the SCO site has been successfully attacked, intentionally taken down, has lost connectivity or has simply broken.
A traceroute from Netcraft to the www.sco.com site stops on Level 3's network.
% traceroute www.sco.com traceroute to www.sco.com (216.250.140.112), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets 1 treenwood (195.92.95.1) 7.155 ms 8.044 ms 3.142 ms 2 a4-1-0.287.ac-4.msl.as5388.net (195.92.79.213) 34.171 ms 196.496 ms 30.450 ms 3 ge1-0.5.pbr-1.msl.as5388.net (195.92.196.5) 22.324 ms 20.921 ms 23.974 ms 4 pos5-0.cnr-2.r18.telc.as5388.net (195.92.55.131) 35.601 ms 50.770 ms 40.304 ms 5 195.50.116.189 (195.50.116.189) 40.311 ms 38.041 ms 36.732 ms 6 ae0-53.mp1.London1.Level3.net (212.187.131.129) 38.898 ms 35.263 ms 44.848 ms 7 so-1-0-0.mp1.London2.Level3.net (212.187.128.49) 32.589 ms 29.440 ms 37.079 ms 8 so-1-0-0.bbr1.Washington1.level3.net (212.187.128.138) 104.659 ms 144.951 ms 103.396 ms 9 so-3-0-0.mp1.Denver1.Level3.net (64.159.1.113) 144.049 ms 145.954 ms 174.242 ms 10 gigabitethernet10-0.hsipaccess2.Denver1.Level3.net (64.159.3.122) 141.461 ms !H * 140.101 ms !H %
Posted by Mike Prettejohn in Around the Net, Performance
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