Anybody else experiencing difficulties visiting digg.com?

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..dig has been down for quite some time , I could not get in -2hrs ago..

i hope they're mainting it .. it's usually so slow

Pinging digg.com [64.191.203.30] -> Request timed out

failure point appears to be a core router => edma-buyer-pri-ed.sjo.equinix.net

I'm seeing this also from Colorado, USA ... maybe the DIGG effect did DIGG in! ;-)

/pd :
well pinging hotmail.com wouldn't work either.
are u sure pinging digg.com usually works?

Keep in mind that a machine/web farm may disable ICMP traffic ... so ping is not a definite test if a machine is up or not ... although traceroute should show you most of the hops as this is usually enabled on network gear.

BTW, a very low-level test is simply doing a "telnet HOSTNAME 80" and see if anything answers there.

diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2006/ ...

It's back online!

yeah they are back..

I did my best to identify the failure point as commented earlier above :)-

...and Kevin kindly notes "Digg is down due to metropolitan network issues that took down several of digg's upstream network providers this morning"