Help with unresolvable domain (subdomain, actually)

[Mike Bernhardt]

> A few options:
>1: once the LB knows that all back-ends are down, it can continue to answer
>with the correct A, but drop the TTL to be much shorter -- this allows
>things to recover faster.

This would work well because the actually web site wasn't down, at least not
yesterday. If I substituted the IP address for the domain name, it was
reachable and links maintained the domain portion of the URL in dotted
decimal format. It seems only DNS is hosed.