The outages list is at isotf.org, right? I had not yet gotten around to signing up and a couple of messages here prompted me to take a look. Assuming the links I see for isotf.org are correct, someone might want to notify the list about an outage: $ dig +trace isotf.org mx ; <<>> DiG 9.2.8 <<>> +trace isotf.org mx ;; global options: printcmd . 424771 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 424771 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 304 bytes from 216.180.54.2#53(216.180.54.2) in 2 ms org. 172800 IN NS TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. org. 172800 IN NS TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. org. 172800 IN NS B0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.org. org. 172800 IN NS A0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO. org. 172800 IN NS C0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO. org. 172800 IN NS D0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.org. ;; Received 417 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 206 ms isotf.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.amigostecnicos.net. isotf.org. 86400 IN NS ns.amigostecnicos.net. ;; Received 80 bytes from 204.74.113.1#53(TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET) in 32 ms ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached $ host ns.amigostecnicos.net. ns.amigostecnicos.net has address 209.151.108.152 $ host ns2.amigostecnicos.net. ns2.amigostecnicos.net has address 209.151.108.152 $ Somebody might want to read up on nameserver diversity. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.