Some weirdness on Vanilla server, just had to re-link my account as I logged on (had been on already earlier tonight).

thought I'd also check my balance, seems that also suffered this weirdness, as my balance is now only 500 and not the 170k I had earlier!!!

Just to add to that I took a break to watch TV and when I came back my location and inventory had reverted to how it was when I logged in earlier.
Balance is OK I think.

Correction: My balance has reverted to 500. I'm sure it had been much greater as I'd banked most of my Tekkit gold years ago. I'm not too bothered as the market's broken anyway so it was mostly useful for obtaining a few "starter" emeralds in FTB.

Is there something odd about the DNS record for community.crazy-fools.co.uk as nothing seems to find it right now. The game connects-mostly but drops out from time to time but no other diagnostic tool I've tried can even resolve the name

Correction: its a "SRV" record, so normal DNS tools don't resolve it. I'm guessing it doesn't seem to get cached either because it can disappear and reappear suddenly. Probably a problem with my ISP.

minecraft.crazy-fools.co.uk:24444 seems to work reliably.