According to Uunet: Level3 is having a major outage UUNET Network Operations (NOC) NOC Engineer on Duty 800-870-0307 I can confirm that there are delays getting to many different backbones from Level 3. (Above.net, Uunet, Exodus). And look at these funky ping results: #ping www.yahoo.com PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (204.71.202.160) from 63.211.145.240 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=3.5 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=627.8 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=1006.8 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=1395.2 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=1797.9 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=5 ttl=245 time=2194.1 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=6 ttl=245 time=2620.0 ms 64 bytes from w1.yahoo.com (204.71.202.160): icmp_seq=7 ttl=245 time=3081.3 ms