How to check if a tier-1 provider is down?

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vircotto join:2002-06-04 searching... Reviews: ·Verizon FiOS	How to check if a tier-1 provider is down? Hopefully this isn't a silly question. Is there a site or other source I can use to check if a tier-1 provider is/was down? The reason I ask is that a web site I work with was down for a few hours yesterday because the hosting company (who I like so far) said that both of their tier-1 providers went down. I.e., everything was hunky-dory in their data center, but that the "East Coast experienced outages across multiple carriers", including their tier-1 providers. I'd just like to be able to independently confirm that the problem was outside of their control.
	to forum · permalink · 2012-07-02 12:03:43 ·
vircotto join:2002-06-04 searching...	While I would still like to know the answer to the question I asked, I was just informed that the outage was actually due to a "DNS amplification and reflection attack" against the data center.
vircotto join:2002-06-04 searching...	to forum · permalink · 2012-07-02 13:56:57 ·
MVS Premium join:2005-04-18	reply to vircotto This site should help: »www.internetpulse.net/
MVS Premium join:2005-04-18	to forum · permalink · 2012-07-02 22:28:26 ·

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