Comment 40 for bug 435193

The server is still off-line, (I completely disabled my firewall to confirm). The problem seem to have been getting consistently worse in the last week or two, with the connection being down for several hours at a time. The last outage started yesterday lunchtime, and is still off-line now.
We do need some way of accessing a website which tells us the state of 'keyserver.ubuntu.com'.