SEAN@dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes:

While checking on Vienna, I also found I had problems reaching sites in Boston, MA. Both Tufts University and Boston University are off-net. I haven't heard of anything happening in the Boston area. I know Tufts switch providers, but I don't know about BU. So the information in the RADB may not give good information for reaching the correct upstream provider.

The sites have come back up, and it appears the former nearnet lost more customers than I knew about. Because the new provider doesn't include information in an public RADB-like database, I didn't realize all the sites went through the same place. I was looking for and asking the wrong provider. UUNET had announced on their maintenance page they are replacing routers in Boston, MA this morning. The router maintenance affected the sites I was using to check for problems: computerworld.com, tufts.edu, and bu.edu. I guess its time to look for new beacons. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation