Anyone got any idea what has happened to Communitech.net's name servers today? DNS lookup timeouts at the moment so I can't get to any domains hosted on ns.communitech.net or ns.hosting4u.net

I think communitech could probably answer that better than we could. Have you tried emailing them? Do they have IM progams for support contact? Pings don't look good on the name servers you gave :(

C:\WINDOWS>ping hosting4u.net
Unknown host hosting4u.net.

C:\WINDOWS>ping communitech.net

Pinging communitech.net [209.15.2.11] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 209.15.2.11:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Their nameservers, sites and admin facilities seem to be down. Their server admin panel responds (slowly) to IP but their main site doesn't

Thus email is down as well. Although ns3.communitech.net does appear to be responding, none of the others are. Anyone got an international number for them?

My server is still up but many of the domains are using communitech.net nameservers!

Do you think they might have a DoS?

I got a response... they've got routing problems.