Thanks Brad for bringing this up.

From a Spark business connection there's definitely a problem:

$ dig a atlas.ripe.net @122.56.237.1

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> a atlas.ripe.net @122.56.237.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

$ dig a atlas.ripe.net @8.8.8.8

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> a atlas.ripe.net @8.8.8.8
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18898
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;atlas.ripe.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
atlas.ripe.net. 4453 IN CNAME atlas-ui.ripe.net.
atlas-ui.ripe.net. 4453 IN A 193.0.6.158

;; Query time: 213 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 26 21:14:15 2016
;; MSG SIZE ��rcvd: 71


-JB

On 26 January 2016 at 11:00, Brad Hooper <brad@coloau.com.au> wrote:
Morning,

Could someone from Spark please ping me off list.

Your DNS servers haven't been resolving ripe.net domains for the last 3 months. Your helpdesk is telling me that RIPE has been shutdown because they cannot ping them.

Thanks,
Brad
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