RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal. I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing slightly. What are others seeing? -Randy -----Original Message----- From: deeann mikula [mailto:deeann@telerama.com] Sent: September 11, 2001 10:22 AM To: Charles Sprickman Cc: Avi Freedman; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center. Sounds like on purpose.
Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
few people (in pgh, PA) that i have been talking to on irc have reported ./'d news sites everywhere. (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com, etc.) my office has been relegated am radio, which is pretty pathetic for an ISP. pretty poor performance for a network orginally designed to faciliate communication in just such circumstances. i hope that military and federal communication is faring better than the commercial sites.
All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in. All
i assume that in nyc or dc only. we are listening to AM radio just fine... deeann m.m. mikula director of operations telerama public access internet http://www.telerama.com 1.877.688.3200
We are also seeing a decrease in traffic volume. Randy Neals wrote:
Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal. I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing slightly.
What are others seeing?
-Randy
-----Original Message----- From: deeann mikula [mailto:deeann@telerama.com] Sent: September 11, 2001 10:22 AM To: Charles Sprickman Cc: Avi Freedman; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center. Sounds like on purpose.
Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
few people (in pgh, PA) that i have been talking to on irc have reported ./'d news sites everywhere. (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com, etc.) my office has been relegated am radio, which is pretty pathetic for an ISP.
pretty poor performance for a network orginally designed to faciliate communication in just such circumstances. i hope that military and federal communication is faring better than the commercial sites.
All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in. All
i assume that in nyc or dc only. we are listening to AM radio just fine...
deeann m.m. mikula
director of operations telerama public access internet http://www.telerama.com 1.877.688.3200
-- Mike Brooks Systems Administrator Taconic Technology Corp. 518-392-1280
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Randy Neals wrote:
Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal. I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing slightly.
The news sites are all overloaded, so people are just watching TV or listening to the radio. We had a very brief initial surge of several mbit/s above normal, but it quickly went to sub-normal (maybe 50% of normal) traffic volume. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| I route System Administrator | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
For "softer" sites -- non-news related, we saw normal traffic up to about 9:20am EDT. Then a sharp drop off over the next 40 minutes. The level of traffic is similar to the ~6am traffic levels, most likely those not affected by these events directly. For news related and anything remotely political the opposite effect is very evident and levels on these sites started exceeding their daily peaks by 10am. Deepak Jain [woke to sirens and phones ringing too..] -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Randy Neals Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:33 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal. I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing slightly. What are others seeing? -Randy -----Original Message----- From: deeann mikula [mailto:deeann@telerama.com] Sent: September 11, 2001 10:22 AM To: Charles Sprickman Cc: Avi Freedman; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Avi Freedman wrote:
FYI, 2 planes crashed into the world trade center. Sounds like on purpose.
Not to be ghoulish, but the traffic impact is looking to be fairly large on the 'net (and on the PSTN in the NYC area).
few people (in pgh, PA) that i have been talking to on irc have reported ./'d news sites everywhere. (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com, etc.) my office has been relegated am radio, which is pretty pathetic for an ISP. pretty poor performance for a network orginally designed to faciliate communication in just such circumstances. i hope that military and federal communication is faring better than the commercial sites.
All VHF TV stations except for CBS 2 are off the air, many radio stations are off the air, and it's largely impossible to get a call in. All
i assume that in nyc or dc only. we are listening to AM radio just fine... deeann m.m. mikula director of operations telerama public access internet http://www.telerama.com 1.877.688.3200
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:32:58AM -0400, Randy Neals wrote:
Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal. I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing slightly.
What are others seeing?
From here I saw increases this morning when the event occured that definately show up on all the monitoring. While the level shot up it then leveled off, and is now at a normal daily level for the afternoon.
I suspect at this time the increased news traffic and the like is offset by the reduction in some otherwise normal traffic with things like the stock markets being closed. News and news related sites are slammed, of course. Many are showing page load problems. I don't see any direct bandwidth problems from my locations, all the issues appear to be host loading. I can only hope that since IP networks seem to be working fairly well, all things considered, that we are all helping some people communicate with loved ones when the phone networks are clearly experiencing problems. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
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