Seems like the "Freenom world" DNS (recursor) server has at long last dropped off The BGP prefix 80.80.80.0/24 is gone from the table, but a less specific 80.80.80.0/23 is still there, and is "capturing" the old requests. Seems like the new 80.80.80.0/23 ends up in Hong Kong somewhere. I wonder how many queries are still going in that direction (to a dead endpoint) The alt server IP 80.80.81.81 seems to ping but not reply to DNS queries Freenom world I guess is dead for good based on the destruction of freenom via Meta/etc after the freenom domains were phishing magnets and the common victims of such phishing domains took legal action against freenom. Predictably the website is still frozen in time: https://www.freenom.com/en/index.html?lang=en
[15:44:41] ben@ossa:~$ dig benjojo.co.uk @80.80.80.80
;; communications error to 80.80.80.80#53: timed out
;; communications error to 80.80.80.80#53: timed out
one honk maybe more