European packet loss average increasing

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

My non-scientific measurements (i.e. pings to well known european
sites) show an increase in packet loss to about 6%, the 10 day
average previously was less than 1%.

Neither ns.ebone.net nor auth1.ebone.net are answering queries.

BGP data still looks normal
KPNQwest data http://bgp.potaroo.net/as286/

So far I don't see much change in traffic levels at LINX
http://www.linx.net/tools/stats/index.thtml

AMS-IX graphs seem to have a glitch, or one heck of a DDOS.
http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html