e...@gmx.us wrote: 
> On 7/18/24 02:06, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > My ISP is RTA.  I am in a rural area near Austinn, Texas, and have a > 10/1 
> > microwave link.  Could the problem be with RTA?
> 
> It's probably a routing issue between you and them. Or maybe "delivery
> content network" (That's what it's called, right?  A company with fat pipes
> in several places that rents out their bandwidth.) got temporarily
> misconfigured.  their I've had instances where one or more sites become
> inaccessible for minutes or hours, then work again.


Content delivery network -- in this case, Akamai, which I used
to work for 20 years ago.

The 429 error indicates either that the local node is
overwhelmed (unlikely) or that the client has asked for a limit
on traffic to prevent a giant bill.

-dsr-

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