They are reporting a DDoS attack via their Twitter Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:30:42AM -0800, Grant Ridder via Outages <outages@outages.org> wrote a message of 38 lines which said:
"We are seeing a system-wide DNS outage. Investigating now." https://twitter.com/dnsimple/status/539499331670511616
All DNS servers down:
% check-soa -i -ns "ns1.dnsimple.com. ns2.dnsimple.com. ns3.dnsimple.com. ns4.dnsimple.com." dnsimple.com. ns1.dnsimple.com. 2620:111:8000::53: ERROR: Timeout 198.241.10.53: ERROR: Timeout ns2.dnsimple.com. 2620:111:8001::53: ERROR: Timeout 198.241.11.53: ERROR: Timeout ns3.dnsimple.com. 2620:111:8002::53: ERROR: Timeout 50.31.242.53: ERROR: Timeout ns4.dnsimple.com. 2620:111:8003::53: ERROR: Timeout 50.31.243.53: ERROR: Timeout