It seems that a real LOAD of websites is unavailable at the time of this writing. This outage includes: www.artofgregmartin.com, www.neowin.net, www.okaysoft.de, www.netshelter.net, www.avault.com, www.ve3d.com, www.internettrafficreport.com, www.tech-critic.com, www.littlewhitedog.com, www.overclockers.com, www.theinquirer.net, www.tech-report.com, www.viaarena.com, www.winbeta.org, www.windowplanet.net, www.anandtech.com, www.amdmb.com, and other major websites. Rumour has it said this offline frenzy is related to AT&T routers/backbones/servers. We will keep you informed. Update: A basic 'internet health report' can be found here: InternetPulse.net. TwistedMetal from Tech-Critic has provided some more details: ISP's using AT&T, started reporting their servers were slow, and that it was a router problem. A little while after that, 3/4 of the AT&T servers went down, and caused a major amount of sites to go offline. There is a backbone server called Winstar/GoodNet owned by AT&T, which is down also. Driverheaven reports: There appears to be a Microsoft SQL Monitor worm spreading. Massive UDP traffic on port 1434 is affecting major internet backbones, including UUNET. Of course, servers and home users are being flooded as well. Many websites are currently inaccessible or slow, depending on your location and ISP. The SQL worm attack began Friday. It's sort of DoS'ing port 1434. Affected software is Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as to be read in this CERT/CC bulletin. Affected users and server administrators are advised to shut down servers and install this security patch or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 immediately. After patching SQL should run normally. More information about the worm named DDOS_SQLP1434.A is available from Trendmicro or Symantec. Interested observers may check for Packet Loss & IP reachability charts updated every hour: More real time stats: http://average.matrix.net Live info from NO-IP: NO-IP.com There is a good event summary on CNN. Everyone who just tuned in and wants to catch up on early morning developments is encouraged to give that article a read.