For about the last 12 hours I have been unable to reliably connect to WMF wikis. Ive tried both Firefox and IE8 both without success. Pages either load and proceed to hang forever, or partial page contents are loaded. There have been multiple reports in -tech about this from multiple people spanning at least half the globe. traceroute:
15 77 ms 56 ms 112 ms te1-2-0d0.cir1.chicago2-il.us.xo.net[216.156.72.5] 16 55 ms 57 ms 60 ms 207.88.14.201.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.201] 17 80 ms 83 ms 84 ms te-3-0-0.rar3.washington-dc.us.xo.net[207.88.12.74] 18 86 ms 104 ms 99 ms te-3-0-0.rar3.atlanta-ga.us.xo.net[207.88.12.9] 19 103 ms 116 ms 87 ms te-4-0-0.rar3.miami-fl.us.xo.net[207.88.12.6] 20 85 ms 122 ms 91 ms 207.88.14.58.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.58] 21 102 ms 93 ms 91 ms w006.z207088246.xo.cnc.net [207.88.246.6] 22 191 ms 207 ms * text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org [208.80.152.2] 23 * * 219 ms text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org [208.80.152.2]
and ping results
Pinging text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org [208.80.152.2] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Reply from 208.80.152.2: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=45
Ping statistics for 208.80.152.2: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 164ms, Maximum = 164ms, Average = 164ms
Hope this helps someone figure out the problem
John