Keith Watson wrote:
From: Chris Green Sent: 13 December 2005 13:23 On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:18:10PM +0000, Darren wrote: I seem to remember seeing someone saying on Usenet last night that there's a big 'pipe' down somewhere that will be affecting quite a bit of routing. I couldn't get to www.richersounds.com last night (still can't) and I also can't get to www.apache.org.
Wonder if it's this business over at Hemel Hempstead causing problems?
Not sure about why Apache is unavailable (unless UK traffic somehow routes to a transparent UK-based mirror), but the explosion took out Northgate Information Solutions, who host several high-profile customers, including Richer. The Register talks about it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/12/richer_asos/
...and the BBC has a take too:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4520566.stm
The irony is that Northgate's backup and service-continuity solution was, er, apparently in the same building...
Simon