Well that kinda sucked...

Email stopped working friday, and about 6 hours later so did the web site. At first I thought it was the server, but a little "dig"ging led me to the DNS host as the problem.

I don't know what happened yet, but it seems like xname.org went down and stopped responding to DNS requests for a few days. It's a free service so it's hard to complain, but this is about the third time in a year.

So based on some recommendations, I've swung over to zoneedit.com, and kept xname.org as a backup. Hoping for a little more stability, as I already have enough problems to deal with than sporatic email. And why the hell does this crap always happen when I'm waiting on a really important email. >:0