There was all kinds of press coverage about the outage, but not a lot of technical detail. Based on reports, Comcast Internet customers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Hampshire, and parts of Washington, D.C. were without access their DNS server(s) from about 8:30 pm Eastern to 11:30 pm Eastern, though some say it started as early at 8 pm and ended after midnight. NBC was told by a Comcast technician that outages were spread out over six states in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Comcast said that phone and CATV customers were not affected. According to published reports, Comcast was performing regular maintenance on their DNS servers and something went wrong. A Comcast spokesman said on Monday that "Last night, our engineers identified a server issue that was affecting Internet service in Boston, parts of New England and the DC/Beltway areas". Comcast did not share how many customers were affected. BTW, did anyone look at http://dns.comcast.net/status.php during this outage? Regards, Frank