likewhoa's name servers are not responding very quickly at all. i suspect their backup link w/ np1 is hurtin:
14 jfk-edge-04.inet.qwest.net (205.171.30.110) 83.773 ms 83.877 ms 83.803 ms
15 65.112.96.98 (65.112.96.98) 90.458 ms 90.397 ms 90.518 ms
16 000-073.np1.net (64.61.0.73) 1398.694 ms 1417.454 ms 1390.628 ms
17 001-173.np1.net (64.61.1.173) 4313.770 ms 4276.395 ms 4294.342 ms
18 024-150.colo.ny.np1.net (64.61.24.150) 4347.453 ms 4366.565 ms 4348.063 ms
19 ns2.likewhoa.com (66.181.170.170) 4392.252 ms 4406.116 ms 4438.877 ms
is np1.net == likewhoa or just a customer of qwest? it doesn't look like a direct connect to qwest but i could be mistaken.
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