Hey all, You may have noticed an outage since about 1pm US EDT yesterday. There was a total network failure and my network provider (Comcast Business Class) didn't actually track it down until this morning. It should be all fixed now and services should be up and running normally. I am very sorry for the inconvenience. Long version: At shortly after 1pm I noticed my network was out and I couldn't get to any websites. I quickly determined that I could only get 3 hops out into Comcast's network so I called Comcast support to report the problem. I spent an hour on the phone with them during which time they blamed me for bad settings on my systems!!!! Stupid first-line techs. Anyways, I escalated and was supposed to get a callback from 2nd tier support within 4 hours. That didn't happen so I called back again around 7pm only to be told that no, it was an 8 hour callback window. Of course I never got the callback. This morning I called back yet again and this time the tech worked through the problem. He could ping my gateway address but NOT ping my router.. At which point he FINALLY started troubleshooting. They finally determined that someone had "stolen" my network block so he was pinging their modem and not mine. They reset my modem and voila, it's all working again. At least until that other guy calls in and resets his modem, too... *sigh* Anyways, we're back up (for now). HOPEFULLY this wont happen again. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available