My personal take on this is not that UWI's DNS servers have gone down (even tho it is still a possibilty), but that there is a lack of bandwidth getting in and out and so DNS requests time out, especially given that it is approx 270ms from UWI to the backbone on a good day, then from the backbone to u thru ur ISP is another thing.. if it is VSAT, that's another 270ms and that is just after travelling the same 540ms to make the DNS request This could be really improved if the end user is using C&W's fibre across the sea instead of VSAT though... but in any case I'd like to point out the issue of the over-subscribed on-campus traffic (that used to be used by both UWI and UTECH - dont know how it is now).

So even though school is on hilday it was probably a drop in bandwidth or some bottleneck issue.

P.S. It could be some DNS cache corruption somewhere since it was more like a one-off thing and since some people could have still gotten some .jms