Some of you may have been aware of this, but this is an FYI for the others and a question for the Lsoft folks. Short version: Early saturday morning 1/15 the domain "panix.com" was hijacked so that email and web access went astray. The new registrar was in Australia. The process that did this is still unknown, as the correct registrar (Dotster) still "thought" it owned it, and the transfer was not done through the normal channels. As DNS caches TTL expired, the problem spread around the world. Things were put back by sunday evening 1/16 and it will take till monday evening for all the DNS caches to expire. If you have panix.com users on your lists, they will have been bounceing but this will straighten out soon if not already. Question for the Lsoft folks (you may want to run this by the network gurus): Throughout this event, lists that I subscribe to which are hosted on Apple (not sure about Peach) continued to be delivered properly. Does Lsoft not use the usual DNS systems that expire records after (usually) 24 hours, or does it internally cache certain domains on a longer term basis? -- Rich Greenberg N6LRT Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507 Eastern time zone. I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L