R devel - Jun 2013 - pretty eerie feeling: Google "down", Twitter "down", R sites up

Maybe this is just from inside ETH Zurich, 
but I haven't seen this before in many years:
for > 15 minutes now, for me and at least someone else here,

- Google (incl. Gmail, calendar..) is entirely unreachable
- Twitter is "connecting" and is not reached (in the browser),

- three major Swiss news(paper) websites (20min, TA, NZZ) are out
  of reach,

but  "of course" the ETH web sites are fine for me (but I'm inside
ETH)
and notably,

  www.r-project.org ,
  bugs.r-project.org,
  cran.r-project.org
  developer.r-project.org
  svn.r-project.org

are all fine and up... an eerie feeling indeed.

Martin

On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at
stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Maybe this is just from inside ETH Zurich, 
> but I haven't seen this before in many years:
> for > 15 minutes now, for me and at least someone else here,
> 
> - Google (incl. Gmail, calendar..) is entirely unreachable
> - Twitter is "connecting" and is not reached (in the browser),
> 
> - three major Swiss news(paper) websites (20min, TA, NZZ) are out
>  of reach,
> 
> but  "of course" the ETH web sites are fine for me (but I'm
inside ETH)
> and notably,
> 
>  www.r-project.org ,
>  bugs.r-project.org,
>  cran.r-project.org
>  developer.r-project.org
>  svn.r-project.org
> 
> are all fine and up... an eerie feeling indeed.
> 
> Martin

Martin,

No problems for me accessing either Google or Twitter. The Twitter Status page:

  http://twitterstatus.tumblr.com/

is not showing anything nor is the Twitter Support account:

  https://twitter.com/Support


That being said, I just got your post, almost an hour after you sent
it...according to the e-mail headers, the bulk of the delay was within the ETHZ
domain, between phil2.ethz.ch and hypatia.math.ethz.ch.

Regards,

Marc