Is livejournal.com sick?

[tigertoy]

Over the last couple of days, the LJ site has been almost unusable. A very high percentage of the time I try to load any page (logging in, friends page, look at a specific post, respond to a post) IE comes up with the "Cannot find server or DNS error" page.

(1) Does this page actually mean that my DNS can't figure out what "www.livejournal.com" means (even though it knew what it meant 10 seconds before and it certainly hasn't changed), or is IE giving a misleading error message?

(2) Does this point to something wrong at my end that I might be able to fix somehow? I seem to be having the same level of trouble at home and at work.

(3) Is it just me, or are other people having this trouble?

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

(1) IE is giving misleading errors (as is it's wont)
(2) Nope.
(3) See http://status.livejournal.com/ which is hosted outside of the LJ cluster.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

It's not just you. I've been having those problems too and it's really annoying.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I, too, have been having troubles for a couple of days. Don't know whether they persist today.