Re: is oss.sgi.com down

[Hasch@t-online.de (Juergen Hasch)]

Am Samstag, 11. August 2001 23:12 schrieb Seth Mos:
> At 22:49 11-8-2001 +0200, Juergen Hasch wrote:
> >Am Samstag, 11. August 2001 22:29 schrieb Timothy Ball:
> > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:58:00PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote:
> > > > At 21:29 11-8-2001 -0400, Knut J Bjuland wrote:
> > > > >I have not been able to reach oss.sgi.com this weekend. It is down?
> > > >
> > > > No, if you have tcp_ecn enabled you might switch off with
> > > >
> > > > echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
> > > >
> > > > If this is the case, a router of the ISP where oss lives needs to be
> > > > upgraded.
> > >
> > > Uhh... I can't ping it either from any network I'm on including
> > > different OS'ed machines.
> >
> >Seems to be a DNS problem, try 216.32.174.27.
>
> It works for me. Note: The router they have probably does not pass icmp
> packets. You can't ping it but you can telnet to port 80 :-)

It works again here, too. I tried traceroute, but the output is not very 
conclusive.
I guess Code Red is working its way through the Internet and eats
all bandwith it can get ;-)

...Juergen