Here's your answer, guys, to why you're having problems.

http://blog.photobucket.com

October 06, 2005
Photobucket Network Update

If you didn't know, yesterday two Tier 1 providers got into a feud and cut off traffic to eachothers network.

Read article here

Unfortunately Photobucket was one of the thousands of sites effected. We have talked with both Cogent and Level 3, but it doesn't look like it will be fixed anytime soon. Rather than sit back and wait for it to all get sorted out, we have taken some drastic steps to work towards our own resolution.

- Overnighted some additional network equipment as of yesterday
- Moved our dns over to Ultradns (which is used by amazon, myspace, etc) . This gives us some flexibility on how we handle traffic from the two networks.
- Working frantically on bringing up another carrier so we can start pushing 'non-resolvable' traffic that direction.

We believe this will solve many or all of the issues regardless of what happens with Cogent and Level 3.

Thanks for understanding, Photobucket got the worst of a bad situation that is totally out of our control.

Alex
October 05, 2005
Network Issue

It appears there is a peering issue with some of the network providers. We are looking into this.

http://scoreboard.keynote.com/scoreb...assword=public

We'll keep you posted.

Alex
So they changed their DNS and it could take 72 hours for changes to take effect... exactly what I've been saying all along xD