[outages] Wikileaks.org down?

[Seth Mattinen]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:12:58AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> HOST: 113-253                     Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
>>   1. 1-2.vicimarketing.com         0.0%     1    4.8   4.8   4.8   4.8   0.0
>>   2. 64.31.159.153                 0.0%     1    4.4   4.4   4.4   4.4   0.0
>>   3. ge-6-23-12.car1.Tampa1.Level  0.0%     1   34.0  34.0  34.0  34.0   0.0
>>   4. ae-2-5.bar1.Tampa1.Level3.ne  0.0%     1    4.8   4.8   4.8   4.8   0.0
>>   5. ae-6-6.ebr2.Atlanta2.Level3.  0.0%     1   23.3  23.3  23.3  23.3   0.0
>>   6. ae-73-70.ebr3.Atlanta2.Level  0.0%     1   34.4  34.4  34.4  34.4   0.0
>>   7. ae-2.ebr1.Washington1.Level3  0.0%     1   41.9  41.9  41.9  41.9   0.0
>>   8. ae-71-71.csw2.Washington1.Le  0.0%     1   48.8  48.8  48.8  48.8   0.0
>>   9. ae-73-73.ebr3.Washington1.Le  0.0%     1   48.0  48.0  48.0  48.0   0.0
>>  10. ae-3.ebr3.NewYork1.Level3.ne  0.0%     1   49.3  49.3  49.3  49.3   0.0
>>  11. ae-83-83.csw3.NewYork1.Level  0.0%     1   45.4  45.4  45.4  45.4   0.0
>>  12. ae-81-81.ebr1.NewYork1.Level  0.0%     1   46.8  46.8  46.8  46.8   0.0
>>  13. ae-43.ebr2.London1.Level3.ne  0.0%     1  114.6 114.6 114.6 114.6   0.0
>>  14. ae-21-52.car1.London1.Level3  0.0%     1  167.2 167.2 167.2 167.2   0.0
>>  15. 212.113.16.110                0.0%     1  117.3 117.3 117.3 117.3   0.0
>>  16. ae1-0.ams-koo-score-1.intero  0.0%     1  154.5 154.5 154.5 154.5   0.0
>>  17. ae1-0.sto-010-score-1.intero  0.0%     1  198.0 198.0 198.0 198.0   0.0
>>  18. ae0-0.sto-002-score-1.intero  0.0%     1  152.4 152.4 152.4 152.4   0.0
>>  19. 84.233.135.78                 0.0%     1  154.3 154.3 154.3 154.3   0.0
>>  20. vlan401.ge0.cr0.sth3.prqinet  0.0%     1  150.5 150.5 150.5 150.5   0.0
>>  21. ge0.tr0.sth3.prqinet.net      0.0%     1  152.2 152.2 152.2 152.2   0.0
>>  22. ???                          100.0     1    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
>>
>> There was some mumbling, I believe on Slashdot -- which means its 
>> confidence level is 0, of course -- that the FBI was involved in this outage.
> 
> The issue you're referring to (re: Slashdot) is with regards to VP
> candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! mailbox being compromised, and contents
> of that mailbox mailbox being put up on Wikileaks.
> 
> Numerous news sources have run article on the break-in.
> 
> Wikileaks is either overloaded or has been shut down by the upstream due
> to god-knows-what, or by government request.  None of this should come
> as a surprise under the circumstances, and I'm also somewhat confused
> why a website going down would be outages at isotf.org worthy.
> 

Not down for me and it loads fast...

~Seth