It happend to me yesterday right as the NWN 1.31 patch released. I thought it might be increased traffic to the site but to check I used
www.visualroute.com and hit it from VA which worked fine. But here in Atlanta I could not get to the board. This has to be some sort of Internet routing thing at his ISP level. My guess on that is because I could resolve his IP here but when running a traceroute to him it died at the hop before him.
Granamere