Dreamhost.com DNS zone troubles cause 350,000 dreamhost sites to go down for 8 hrs.
There is a temporary fix to get your site working again below
The dreamhost.com DNS zone is currently having troubles, so most hostnames within this zone are not resolving. This shouldn't have any effect on customer sites' DNS, only central DreamHost services that use the dreamhost.com domain (wiki, panel, etc).
We're looking into the cause and getting things fixed up.
Update Thu Feb 22 03:18:44 PST 2007: The authoritative DNS servers are returning records correctly again, and things are returning to normal as cached answers expire.
If you are reading this then you probably already know what you're doing. I'll provide instructions for windows users.
notepad and hit enter.C:windowssystem32driversetchosts127.0.0.1 localhost 66.33.201.141 www.dreamhost.com 208.113.144.20 lifesaver.dreamhost.com 66.33.201.130 panel.dreamhost.com
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