[Scottish] Strange DNS problem

[Ben Thorp]

OK - here's a weird one for you.

Last month I had a funny DNS outage - could connect to my ISP (freenetname
at that point) but couldn't collect mail, or ping/surf any web addresses,
or use IRC. I fiddled for a day, then went to bed. In the morning
everything was ok.

This month, on the _same_date_ (27th - binary implications?) the same thing
happened. Using a different ISP (ntlworld) although still with the DNS from
freenetname as one of the 3 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf. This month I
have been running Firestarter firewall, but last month I didn't even know
about it. Other than that, everything is the same. And the problem resolved
itself after a day again.

Any ideas what might be happening? (I'm baffled)

Ben Thorp (mrBen)
thorpb@uk.ibm.com