ISP's DNS borked?

I've been unable to play ET for the past few days (no servers show up on list).  And now I discover that I cannot even access the ftp of my own website.  The ftp address becomes mangled into ftp.my_web_site.com.isp_website.com  and then I obviously cannot log in.  I'm using the Linux distro SuSE 10.0.

Now I did disable some services on my system because others on the LAN this system because I did not want some of the default services running, or ones I may have exprmented with but had forgotent to shut off untill that point.

just because you used the word "borked" you need to get the fuck out now.
and yeah j00r b0x ju57 g0t 0wn3d f4gg07 101

>>2
Er, "bork" isn't 1337. It's from the muppets.

>>3
Er, "bork" isn't 1337, it's just gay.

bork bork bork

Sometimes it actually is the ISP at fault.  I was getting a bunch of erroneous "does not exist" errors a while back.  When I switched from the ISP's DNS servers to some free, 3rd party ones the errors stopped *and* the names resolved faster. 

This was despite the 3rd party ones (4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6 by Level3, not sure if they are still active) being more hops away too, so they were even fast enough to make up for that.

>>6
Those ones are still active. My ISPs are fucking slow and have their cache regualarly poisoned.

>>6

Thanks those work, and work fine with resolving ftp through domain names.  ET is still an issue, it may be something else unrelated.