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I got this email from my webhost today:

Dear Roger, For the past two days we have been receiving an inordinate number of support emails from customers ranging from: "I can't connect to my website..." "I can't send email..." "Email is being bounced back to people sending me me email ..." "I can't receive email ..." "I can't FTP to my site..." ... you name it. This has been across ALL our servers. We performed every conceivable test but were unable to verify a single issue. Needless to say, we have been pretty concerned! I am very pleased to announce that we have discovered the problem and that it has nothing to do with our network or servers. The problem is a legal battle between two of the global heavyweight bandwidth providers - Cogent and Level 3. Apparently, in the past two days, Level 3 Communications Inc. refused to accept traffic from rival Cogent Communications Group Inc., rendering large portions of the Internet unreachable. This story has been published by Reuters. Here are a few places you can read the full version online: At REUTERS Links from Google From the news articles, it appears the issue between Level 3 and Cogent has been resolved. However, we also know not to believe everything we read in the news. Therefore, if you have problems connecting with your site in the next few days (whether it be email, uploads or just access), please check with your local ISP first on the status of their network before submitting a support email. If it is a problem with your ISP, we will not be able to assist you anyway. Let's hope these two internet Goliath's can bury the hatchet and play nice!

Dumbasses! It might explain why I've been unable to ftp to a few of my sites.