Sessions time out or fail from AT&T Commercial, Verizon commercial,
Verizon FiOS, and AT&T 3G GSM, all from the East Coast.
However, routing from a shell at pair.com:
%traceroute mail.google.com
traceroute: Warning: mail.google.com has multiple addresses; using
74.125.53.17
traceroute to googlemail.l.google.com (74.125.53.17), 64 hops max, 40 byte
packets
2 192.168.1.41 (192.168.1.41) 3.963 ms 1.456 ms 1.477 ms
3 TenGigabitEthernet7-2.ar5.CHI1.gblx.net (207.138.112.145) 15.972 ms
14.336 ms 14.268 ms
4 po1-20G.ar3.CHI2.gblx.net (67.16.132.241) 14.563 ms 13.708 ms
14.454 ms
5 72.14.197.69 (72.14.197.69) 53.439 ms 13.862 ms 13.986 ms
6 209.85.254.122 (209.85.254.122) 14.283 ms 14.322 ms 13.999 ms
7 72.14.233.116 (72.14.233.116) 65.376 ms 65.557 ms 65.849 ms
8 216.239.46.208 (216.239.46.208) 72.424 ms 72.163 ms 71.921 ms
9 64.233.174.131 (64.233.174.131) 72.007 ms 71.711 ms
64.233.174.129 (64.233.174.129) 71.916 ms
10 72.14.232.6 (72.14.232.6) 82.512 ms 82.767 ms 71.942 ms
11 pw-in-f17.google.com (74.125.53.17) 71.432 ms 71.686 ms 71.938 ms
If I tunnel through, my connection behaves with reasonable crispness.
Cheers,
-Andrew
Google and gmail look fine from here (University of Pittsburgh)... no loss, ~30ms RTT, reachable through TransitRail.
I'm guessing whatever the issue is has been resolved, or the storm has passed?
jms
Works gr8 in europe from direct peers with Google:
6 72.14.198.177 (72.14.198.177) 45.648 ms 1.259 ms 1.069 ms
7 209.85.252.186 (209.85.252.186) 1.455 ms 1.350 ms 1.400 ms
8 209.85.254.153 (209.85.254.153) 20.040 ms 20.494 ms 20.226 ms
9 216.239.48.10 (216.239.48.10) 59.618 ms 35.241 ms 34.844 ms
10 72.14.232.165 (72.14.232.165) 35.193 ms 35.256 ms 72.14.232.167
(72.14.232.167) 35.508 ms
11 72.14.233.210 (72.14.233.210) 35.158 ms 39.258 ms 36.284 ms
12 fk-in-f147.google.com (209.85.129.147) 35.704 ms 35.817 ms 35.601 ms
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm:1/di:1/do:1/ddo:0
Not that it would have been much use to you at the time.
Graeme
It's clear the problem was not affecting a small subset of users:
"We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of
users."
If ISC has an issue open on it, and there is chatter on Nanog about it,
unless they consider their userbase to be 6 billion potential users, the
issue affected more than a "small subset."
Actually, only a small subset of users only know how to search on Google;
everyone else realized they could use Yahoo search in the meantime. 
*ducks and runs*