European packet loss average increasing

My non-scientific measurements (i.e. pings to well known european sites) show an increase in packet loss to about 6%, the 10 day average previously was less than 1%. Neither ns.ebone.net nor auth1.ebone.net are answering queries. BGP data still looks normal KPNQwest data http://bgp.potaroo.net/as286/ So far I don't see much change in traffic levels at LINX http://www.linx.net/tools/stats/index.thtml AMS-IX graphs seem to have a glitch, or one heck of a DDOS. http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html