[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

It's a general slowdown of the complex network between the gentleman's ISP and my host's DNS server. If the trouble were on my end, NO ONE would have been able to get in.

I have noticed in the last week that some internet trunks have slowed down to a crawl at times, yet others have remained relatively fast. If you think of the internet as a whole as a giant 'spider web', one of the strands somewhere from point A to point B was broken, and the subsequent attempt to reroute through another strand(s) caused the timeout. Tell your buddy to keep trying...

Geoff