[ST] [SA] Gmail is down in Boston

[Dan Noe]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 03:46:27PM -0400, Sharon Sbarsky wrote:
> >  It appears that Google's gmail is unavailable to some users in the
> > Boston area.  So you may not get a rapid response from some members of
> > the concom (myself included).
> 
> Not exactly... It is a internet router that got hosed. And the traffic jam 
> that resulted is cause some routes to be unavailable.
> 
> We've been having a problem all day at work because the server where our 
> mail and websites are hosted is in upstate New York, while our office is 
> in Newton. I can't connect to that server and a few other locations, but I 
> can to other places like panix and gmail.

Well, that may have been one problem but the other one was Comcast.. and
it wasn't a simple lack of connectivity either, TCP connections were
dying after synchronization on connections to Google and Youtube.

http://www.bostonist.com/archives/2006/09/26/its_not_firefox_its_comcastic_.php

Comcast claims the problem was Firefox, but I observed the problem with
other browsers and it only showed up on Comcast connections.

The problem seems to have cleared up at this time.  If not, I found you
can work around it by removing your google cookies and disabling any
future cookies from Google (no access to personalized sites such as
GMail, but at least search works).

-D

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