Unlike what I said, I had been using Google Public DNS as a backup DNS server for my home network. I forgot when I reinstalled my secondary Solaris box that it was the primary DNS server for the house. This didn’t matter, as I had unknowingly been using Google’s DNS server for the last few days/weeks as my only DNS provider. Until 10 minutes ago, when 8.8.8.8 stopped responding to all requests, killing off all my active connections. It’s back up now, but it’s out of my configurations until I hear what happened and why.