[outages] DNS issues with .gov on Tuesday 4/24?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:00:27PM +0000,
 Julian Y Koh <kohster at northwestern.edu> wrote 
 a message of 37 lines which said:

> (specifically grants.gov) 

grants.gov has only two name servers and, from their IP addresses,
they are probably next to each other. This is bad practice. Any
routing issue and the domain is down.

> "no servers could be reached" error. 

Badly managed domain, I would say.