One of the main internet DNS servers went down?

Obiyer

Anyone in the Eastern region of the US having trouble accessing a range of sites? It seems that I can access only a few sites but not all of them:

e.g., Google, Microsoft

MMORPG.com is one of the few I can access. Anyone else experiencing strange behavior?

And when I do a tracert the 4th hop is refusing to respond. Has it something to do with sites I visited recently? Such as their exact address is in my xxxx.file thus it works e.g., mmorpg.com? However since my PC can't update from one of the root DNS servers my PC can't get the exact location of the site?

This is really wierd, it's as if a portion of the internet is blind to me. Kind of cool though.

EDIT:

It's 4.68.110.90 that's giving me problems. Maybe a backbone went down? Or the www DNS server that is behaving strangely?

EDIT2:

The IP address mentioned above works great but slow. The reason why, to my best estimate, is that a large ammount of traffic is going through that 'server' now that the other(s) are down. I think all the websites are okay, but just one of the servers or a major backboned is having problems. Should be up by the morning though, unless someone was digging somewhere and broke a fiber connection or something. Lol, poor guy.

Azathoth

Just point to different primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. domain name servers and see if you can overcome your problem.  There are a lot of free ones out there.  Of course, this would only be a temporary solution as most free DNS are slow.