Did someone reload the internet from floppy last night?

[Steven W. Orr]

Last night there were a lot of simultaneous things going on.

* Routes to places were (and still are) *very* long.
* My DNS was not responding via zoneedit.com 
* My incoming port 25 was blocked for 5 hours and all mail was getting 
  connection refused.
* Other peoples port 25 was not responding.

Does anyone know what's going on? Guaranteed *something* is up.

And a question.

If a port 25 is getting "Connection refused", how can I tell where the 
refusal is happening? IOW, how do I tell traceroute to use TCP on port 25?

Anyone?

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