Downtime

And I thought our proxy here at work was going nuts. :)

A simple "pathping" or "tracert" should show you where the connection is broken.

... but I need to give my friend in IT a hard time. :)

...the whole net has been bad, at least from SoCal, for the past 3 days -- LOTS of spurious "site down/not found" results. I think it's probably a side effect of the Democratic National Takeover.