[nostra]

anyone correct me if i am wrong here but i believe the issue was this:

there were problems with the winnersh datacentre yesterday as you have seen in other posts

this was affecting
- Email
- Homepages
- ntlworld.com
- newsgroups...
- DNS

on an intermittent basis

the DNS servers being intermittent were causing problems connecting to anything not going through ntl web proxies as it may not have been resolving your request however the proxies have cached DNS resolution so did not need to rely on the dns servers

but anything not connecting via proxies would have caused intermittent problems with dns resolution

there is also a problem with routing on a certain ip range but i do not believe that this affects you guys

hope this clarifies a little