Did Freepers witness a test takedown of the Internet in preparation for War?

Self | 02/18/03 | acnielsen

[acnielsen guy]

I glad it is not taken seriouly otherwise it would be pulled and then where would you guys have fun.

[Unassuaged]

Speaking as a cube dweller at a large ISP, I can tell you that most all backbone work is scheduled during a config window of 12-6 am depending on the time zone, ect. Also did you traceroute to the offending sites? maybe there was a single point of failure, i.e. a down peer.

[Joe Hadenuf]

That's what happens when you reach the end of the internet.

[SpaceBar]

The Internet Traffic Report does not report anything unusual.

[babaloo999]

http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

[americanbychoice]

That's impossible you darn liar!!!!!!!!!
Socks only disappear one at a time. If two disappeared at the same time it MUST be a Government conspiracy.

[Petronski]

Go back to conspiracy school and dream up a better one!

You talkin' to me?

[Mad Dawgg]

"Did the socks match, or one each of two pairs"

It was one each of two pairs!

Further, in order to comply with the full disclosure policy now in effect I report that four Sam Adams and half a liter of Vodka mysteriously disappeared from the kitchen yesterday during the level 3 snow emergency.

After repeated questioning of me by Mrs. Dawgg I have not been able to shed any new info on this matter.

The only other fact (which may or may not have bearing on this incident) I can relate is I woke up this morning with a severe case of cotton mouth and a slight headache.

My theory is either Aliens or Hillary Clinton are involved.

Developing...

[Doomonyou]

You Dog!

[katana]

That would have been at 9:15 AM GMT in London, 10:15 AM in Frankfurt, and 6:15 PM in Tokyo. If this had been worldwide six minute shutdown of the internet it would have attracted one helluva lot of attention in most of the major trade and financial centers around the world.

[McGruff]

Mine's bigger than yours!

[Quilla]

This is such a FRunny thread. LOL!

[Mad Dawgg]

"What color were they??????"

One green one purple and both were my daughters. So it could be some weird Sock fetish by some pedophile.

Does anyone know where Michael Jackson was this morning?

[acnielsen guy]

There were not offending sites - I only checked sites in four countries, but with the same result the same - quite a backbone we have there. It must circle the globe.

[VRWCmember]

You might need these:

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Soon, you and all your friends can look like this:
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[mikegi]

My guess: most html files are small (except MS FrontPage generated htm's ... but that's a separate issue) while bitmaps are large files. The internet was probably tossing packets and that caused the large files to fail to load.

[acnielsen guy]

It was not a shutdown of the Internet, it was a block of all graphics for a six minute period which would not attract any attention in the counting houses of the world.

[Doomonyou]

Mine's bigger than yours!

Yours came first!

[Mad Dawgg]

"The internet was probably tossing packets and that caused the large files to fail to load."

Yeah? Well then how do you explain the socks?

[acnielsen guy]

All files small and large, logos even FR´s logos did not show on two computers 3000 miles apart.