This was posted by someone on Hostgators forums.

Re: 4/6/2009 Networking Issues
I just got off the phone meeting with them. Here's is the latest official response....

"Between 10:15pm CDT on April 6 and 1:15am CDT on April 7, The Planet's
authoritative name servers (ns1.theplanet.com, ns2.theplanet.com) were
flooded with a very large and brute force Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS) attack. Given the volume of the attack, our network operations
team rerouted all traffic to our name servers through our DDoS
mitigation capabilities so we could isolate and clean the attack traffic
. This mitigation permitted us to resume normal operations by routing
legitimate DNS traffic through our name servers. The Planet's network
and DNS performance have been restored and the attack originator has
ceased actions. Any lingering issues may be indicative of a different
problem that may have been exacerbated by the attack and should be
resolved quickly."

There still seems to be a few issues lingering. If anyone is having a problem still related to this, please post your ticket number so that I can work with The Planet's guy in charge of networking.
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