in-addr problems

Has anyone noticed lately that there have been a lot of problems getting in-addr information on ms.uu.net ip addresses? At first I thought it was a problem with a.root-servers.net, but it appears to be on the MSN/UUNet side. We've had numerous customers of theirs complain that they could not get to some of our sites, or that it was taking a lot longer than usual. We looked at the logs, and sure enough, we're getting "refused connect from aaa.xxx.yyy.zzz: gethostbyaddr() failed" messages from the IP addresses that they're coming from. So, the question is, should we disable this temporarily, or just wait for UUNet/MSN to get their act together?

William S. Duncanson william@neosoft.com NeoSoft Operations (888) NEOSOFT or (713) 968-5800