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It's possible what you're seeing is related to DDOS attacks by  
"anonymous" on UltraDNS (and others) in connection with all the  
Wikileaks events this week. It's hard to say for certain given how  
poorly most mainstream technical news is reported.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10421577-265.html

Regards,
Jason

On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote:

>
> is anyone seeing dns problems with ultradns.net,
>
> I'm seeing lookup problems for several big domains, plus as an  
> impportant aside freebsd uses whois-servers.net cnames such as  
> tld.whois-server.net to the correct whois server
>
> many many other companies use them obv too.
>
> Paul.
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