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Circumstances Beyond Our Control...

Thursday, May 31, 2012

There are currently issues with the Internet. This just in from the excellent Custodian, with whom Prater Raines host our servers:

Since 15:58 today the London Internet Exchange has been experiencing widescale issues resulting in large numbers of ISPs disconnecting from both the Juniper and Extreme LANs which LINX operate. We disconnected immediately the issues started but are still seeing severe disruption to many endpoints within the UK as the issues are causing other providers to experience routing loops and losses on their networks. Global BGP routing will also require some time to stabilise after this large number of disconnects / re-routes.

We are monitoring the situation closely and will take further action where appropriate. For now please be aware that disruption is likely.

An issue of that scale could effect pretty much any ISP hosting a website or indeed connecting you to the Internet. It's likely to be intermittent, and to take a while to resolve itself.

If any Prater Raines customer has an issue updating or viewing their site at the moment, the above may be the reason. Please feel free to get in touch to let us know directly if this is the case (or especially if there are issues other than connecting to the site), but until "widescale issues" resolve themselves, it is likely to be that issue.