news.individual.net

Is it just me[1], or is it currently "not working" ?

[1] you never know with our network ...

 

Well, it's working here.

Of course, if it's borked for you, then you'll not see this.

 

Of course, if it's borked for you, then you'll not see this.

Nope, definitely not working - and no response from
http://www.individual.net/

Can you do us a favour and ping news.individual.net, and let us know
what IP address you get? It wouldn't surprise me if there was some DNS
madness going on

 

Mine's not working so I can't post this.

 

G:\>tracert 130.133.1.4

Tracing route to individual.net [130.133.1.4]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

...

7 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms ge-0/0/0.dcr2.lnd.cw.net
[195.10.12.129]
8 ge-5-0-0-dcr1.lnd.cw.net [195.2.9.89] reports: Destination net
unreachable

Bah. I'll go and "have words"

 

It's been a bit flakey for the last few days, IME.

 

there's your problem.

As far back as '98 they were referred to in the business as "Clueless &
Witless".

 

Oh aye.

 

"C:\>ping news.individual.net

Pinging news.individual.net [130.133.1.4] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 130.133.1.4: bytes=32 time=1300ms TTL=234
Reply from 130.133.1.4: bytes=32 time=1344ms TTL=234
Reply from 130.133.1.4: bytes=32 time=717ms TTL=234
Reply from 130.133.1.4: bytes=32 time=1087ms TTL=234

Ping statistics for 130.133.1.4:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 717ms, Maximum = 1344ms, Average = 1112ms

C:\>"

Bit slow, but all there.

 

Fine for me - has been all morning.
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Not working for me at all this morning. To see what might be the
problem I typed news.individual.net into google groups and the first hit
was this thread!

N

 

Back now for us C&W types

 

These days they still are known as Clueless & Witless. Oh, and as Bulldog.

 

I have to refer to them as "a customer".