No Chrissy - dont.
If it happens again, we know that the IP is almost certainly unroutable,
and if its not, any inability to communicate with the outside world is a
problem with your ISP.

Further demonstration of that is a waste of time.

The next time it happens, ring your helpdesk. They are the ONLY PEOPLE who
can help you with this effectively.

The errors I got last night were the same as in the past - basically the host
>cannot be found - pinging xtra.co.nz (and jetstreamgames.xtra.co.nz and lots
>of others) using their IP addys did not work. Trying to view a domain using
>the IP number did not work either. I did not ping anyone last night - I just
>accepted that this error was the same as in the past. If it happens again
>I will copy the errors from tracert and ping.

*snip*

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