Lot's of silliness being posted here, but I suppose that's the nature of the thing. :-) ********* There DOES appear to be something going on, I manage a dozen websites or so, most of them hosted via a server farm in Plano and I use an application hosted on a cloud service in Kansas City. Over the weekend, saw all of them behaving strangely, symptoms of a DDOS attack, but no obvious attack coming through the firewall. IP packet loss went up extremely high on some domains, while other domains on the same server seemed normal. Some inconsistency in the ability to access certain domains that had different results depending on the geographic location of the computer attempting to get in (which was very weired). My experiences lasted about 10-12 hours and then cleared up as suddenly as it started. All latency and packet loss metrics just suddenly went to normal without explanation.
Never found anything to correct on our side of the firewall and gateway, tech support staff upstream said there was something going on "out in the wild" that was impacting their primary connection with the trunk lines.
Also so, on an internatl intranet at a large private company, certain network applications having similar issues, i.e. packet loss extremely high with no apparent cause, bad enough it rendered about a half dozen applications unusable for half dozen hours or so, then just as my servers did, just went away.
I'm thinking commercial grade high end network hardware with something acting up inside, but what do I know?
Interesting. Packet Loss on a grand scale might be a test.
The internet was intended to survive a nuke war though, so... unless the concept is dedicated packet-absorption with some trickery.... not sure how it could work.