I don't know if it is related, but the Internet today has gone to a slow crawl, but this could be just UUNet. I was trying to get a site today and only getting maybe 33bytes/sec. A little traceroute and ping showed traceroute www.bestfares.com traceroute to www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 corerouter (206.43.30.254) 4.891 ms 0.002 ms 4.640 ms 2 508.Hssi4-0.GW1.SLT1.ALTER.NET (137.39.167.21) 1.159 ms 0.869 ms 0.808 ms 3 508.Hssi4-0.GW1.SLT1.ALTER.NET (137.39.167.21) 8.785 ms 3.812 ms 1.476 ms 4 * 126.Hssi4-0.CR2.ATL1.Alter.Net (137.39.59.185) 293.530 ms 332.660 ms 5 * Fddi0-0.GW1.ATL1.Alter.Net (137.39.37.67) 395.971 ms 434.364 ms 6 165.113.99.35 (165.113.99.35) 2373.699 ms 2191.839 ms 2062.897 ms ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ matterhorn:~$ ping -s www.bestfares.com PING www.bestfares.com: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=0. time=2542. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=2. time=6017. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=5. time=3021. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=7. time=2702. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=8. time=2596. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=9. time=2423. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=12. time=2575. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=14. time=2558. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=15. time=2655. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=17. time=2849. ms 64 bytes from www.bestfares.com (208.212.97.2): icmp_seq=19. time=2700. ms