Connection problem with Yahoo or Flickr

Lord Vetinari · 12-03-2010, 12:32

Odd problem this morning in Worthing (served by Brighton) Broadband works fine but can't connect to either Flickr.com or yahoo.com - all other web sites I use are fine. Is this a DNS problem with VM ?
To be slightly more detailed it appears the service can't connect to the styles server for these sites as sometimes after a long time instead of getting a website not available error, I get an unformatted window appear for the Flickr site at least.

Brian V.

---------- Post added at 11:32 ---------- Previous post was at 11:21 ----------

Amazing result posting on these forums- the flickr site came back 5 mins after the original post

Brian v.

Welshchris · 12-03-2010, 15:04

i doubt weather posting on here had anothing to do with the site reappearing mate.

darren.b · 12-03-2010, 15:55

Yahoo had problems earlier. See here.

III · 12-03-2010, 16:04

There was routing issues this morning, its unclear as to where the fault was ( VM or Yahoo ) due to the fault clearing during investigation.

Lord Vetinari · 12-03-2010, 16:51

Thanks for the replies

- my initial reply was tongue in cheek !
Suspect the problem was with VM as other people I know not on Virgin were able to access flickr normally. Just really wondered what causes this type of problem as it did not seem to be caused by an internet hub going down which tends to slow down a whole lot of sites.
Brian V.

Angua · 12-03-2010, 18:07

Had the Yahoo problem myself earlier in the day but no problems with flickr (VM Customer)