[time-nuts] NIST Down?

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Fri Feb 18 22:51:13 UTC 2011


The internet has been kind of wonky here in Maryland over the last
couple of days.  It wouldn't surprise me to find out that someone on
our pipe is getting hammered with a denial of service attack.

-Chuck Harris

Hal Murray wrote:
>> Ok, NIST time servers are ok but the main site is not responding.
>
> NIST has multiple time servers.
>    http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
>
>> From here (Silicon Valley), the ones in Gaithersburg, MD are not responding.
> I lost contact about 2 hours ago.  The ones in Boulder CO are OK.
>
> I assume by "main site" that you are referring to their web server.  That
> doesn't work from here.
>
> traceroute gets to gwcore5.netg.nist.gov so I guess they have an internal
> network problem.
>
>




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