Well, it's interesting to see what has local interconnects and what's in the US.
Trademe - UP
Geekzone - sort of up
[root@www root]# traceroute slashdot.org
traceroute to slashdot.org (216.34.181.45), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 pe14-bertha-loopback.paradise.net.nz (203.96.153.96) 19.207 ms 16.318 ms 12.296 ms
2 ae0-840.ie4.telstraclear.net (203.167.223.114) 12.809 ms 16.959 ms 9.790 ms
3 ge-1-2-0-843.ie1.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.105) 20.102 ms 20.374 ms 26.782 ms
4 ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net (203.98.50.251) 482.560 ms 499.637 ms *
5 so.jb.wils.telstraclear.net (203.98.42.66) 625.971 ms 631.970 ms 627.307 ms
6 157.130.245.21 (157.130.245.21) 611.638 ms 622.022 ms 619.249 ms
7 0.so-2-0-0.XL1.LAX1.ALTER.NET (152.63.53.58) 655.368 ms 639.820 ms 628.388 ms
8 * 0.so-7-2-1.XT1.LAX7.ALTER.NET (152.63.57.78) 657.633 ms 657.339 ms
9 0.so-6-0-0.BR1.LAX7.ALTER.NET (152.63.112.41) 642.270 ms 639.997 ms 630.389 ms
So, anyone know what's going on?