The Few, The Proud

It's funny.

These days, when a web site won't load, often the first thing I think is:

Oh shit, I hope the problem is at my end.

That's because I'm now hosting a few sites on a dedicated server in the U.S., and I'd much rather my ADSL connection at home drop out than that the users and visitors to those sites get turned away.

As I mentioned earlier, this is not a good weekend to be a network engineer. There's a security hole that's been discovered in Cisco routers, which are a major part of the Internet's infrastructure, and techies everywhere are scurrying to patch them before some script kiddy causes havoc.

Whether either one of those is responsible I cannot tell, but this last half hour I've been suffering up to 98% packet loss here. Fortunately, it is just me, according to the remaining 2% that struggle through, battered and limping, to tell me that the rest of the world is still out there.

So for all my readers (hi Susie!), this is Pixy Misa (who these days only does weekend tech support on a voluntary basis) signing off in hopes that the less fortunate will have this mess fixed by morning.

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