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Just received a message from our bandwidth provider. They're going to do some urgent maintenance on their routers tonight from 6:00pm to 10:00pm PST. We may experience intermittent outages of 10-20 minutes each during this period.

Periodically, and both Wednesday and today I could not log on, basically all day until just now. But I checked and the FR site was up.I think the problem is simply that FR is busy and I, on dial-up, just can't get through before the connection times out. I get this error: But I want to make sure there is not something else going on, such as being blocked or something for some reason.Any comments you might have about access problems to FR, especially on dial-up, are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Free Republic will be unavailable tonight between 1:00 AM PST and 3:00 AM PST. You may want to visit and bookmark our contingency site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2 You can't do this to me. I'll have violent withdrawl symptoms. I consider this to be a direct violation of my civil, constitutional, and human rights. I may file a protest and seek redress with the United Nations, the ACLU, Amnesty International, and PETA. Consider yourselves warned.

CERT has issued an alert indicating that a major flaw has been found in just about all Cisco routers. This bug will allow someone to make a router hang so that it won't accept any more packets, and cause it to need to be rebooted. The upshot of which is, internet connectivity in many places may be spotty for the next few days as these routers are patched. Worse case senerio is that someone has a variant of one of the many microsoft windows worms that can exploit this bug. This could bring large portions of the net grinding to...

Sorry about the intermittent outages. We are doing some heavy duty database and software work on the server. We hope there will be no long periods of down time, but just in case, here is the URL of our contingency site on Yahoo: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/freerepublicBe sure to visit and bookmark the site. We will post status messages there during any extended downtime periods. Thanks, Jim Robinson