I'm tempted to call in and see if I can get a grasp of the scope and nature of the problem. But maybe it would be best if someone simply posted a brief summary of what is publicly known about the issue....to be followed by resonable speculation peppered with some wild speculation.
So far we've received notification of this from Verisign Global Registry, Verisign Payment Services, Genuity Customer Care, NANOG, MSNBC, F.C., and it's been mentioned on a few Web sites. There still seem to be problems. Earlier today CHI->ATL was 2000ms. Now it's improved to 1000ms. 9 0.so-5-0-0.XL2.CHI13.ALTER.NET (152.63.73.21) 24.466 ms 24.311 ms 24.382 ms 10 0.so-0-0-0.TL2.CHI2.ALTER.NET (152.63.68.89) 24.467 ms 24.349 ms 24.454 ms 11 0.so-3-0-0.TL2.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.101.50) 1029.484 ms 1049.529 ms 1063.692 ms 12 0.so-7-0-0.XL4.ATL5.ALTER.NET (152.63.85.194) 1106.067 ms 1118.102 ms 1132.124 ms Kevin