It's back! - was [plug] The world has disappeared

[Craig Ringer]

> OK, in mid diagnostics, pings and tcpdumps alover the place, 
> everything started working perfectly all of a sudden, with no changes 
> (honestly!). I'm going to blame a temporary huccup in Westnet's DNS 
> unless anybody has a better idea.

I didn't notice anything at the time all this was written. Then again, I 
use more than one ISP's DNS servers to avoid this sort of problem. I 
learned to do so for survival (well, useable net connection) purposes 
during my brief stay on Telstra cable a couple of years ago. After all, 
Telstra's DNS was down as much as up, so I had to find somebody else's.

BIND 9 is very happy with multiple DNS servers to forward queries too, 
and does an admirable job of making sure you never even notice an outage 
by your ISP.

I'm not too sure what the ISPs in question would think of that, but 
since I have accounts with both of them I don't think they can really 
complain. All the traffic is across WAIX, too.

Craig Ringer