Originally posted by RustyC:
Yeah, I had the same thing. Makes me wonder if they put a large-girthed hacker type in a middle seat on a 737-800 recently and treated him rudely and he vowed to launch a denial-of-service attack, flooding the server with pings and slowing it to a crawl.
Just uninformed speculation...
A ping flood seems to be about as low-tech as the Onepass site is, so anything's possible.