Probably not the best place to ask if anyone else is having problems accessing the forum, since most people having problems will not see the question...
Presumably whether or not you have the problem will depend on which ISP you use, I have no idea how widespread the problem is.
It appears that at least one of the global top level DNS servers is serving the wrong address for ns1.cerocscotland.com.
It appears that with my ISP (maybe also with others), if the first nameserver returned by the global top level domain server does not point to a working DNS server it fails to resolve any names within the domain.
Whilst not trying the second nameserver is probably a violation of standards there may be a number of ISPs which do so.
Some technical stuff which might help explain the above follows:
Code:
debian:/# dig @k.gtld-servers.net cerocscotland.com ns
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P1 <<>> @k.gtld-servers.net cerocscotland.com ns
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42243
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;cerocscotland.com. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
cerocscotland.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.cerocscotland.com.
cerocscotland.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.cerocscotland.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.cerocscotland.com. 172800 IN A 64.120.163.199
ns2.cerocscotland.com. 172800 IN A 64.120.163.198
;; Query time: 48 msec
;; SERVER: 192.52.178.30#53(192.52.178.30)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 11 19:19:36 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103
debian:/# dig @64.120.163.199 forum.cerocscotland.com
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P1 <<>> @64.120.163.199 forum.cerocscotland.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
debian:/# dig @64.120.163.198 forum.cerocscotland.com
; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P1 <<>> @64.120.163.198 forum.cerocscotland.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15553
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;forum.cerocscotland.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
forum.cerocscotland.com. 600 IN A 64.120.163.197
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
forum.cerocscotland.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.cerocscotland.com.
forum.cerocscotland.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.cerocscotland.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.cerocscotland.com. 14400 IN A 64.120.163.197
ns2.cerocscotland.com. 14400 IN A 64.120.163.198
;; Query time: 108 msec
;; SERVER: 64.120.163.198#53(64.120.163.198)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 11 19:20:45 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 125
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