I see requests for output direct to SQL and to check that your DNS lookup is behaving. I'd just like to vote for both these.
I also have an ISP (BT openworld in the UK) who have been really screwing up on the DNS front for months now, so it would be very useful to monitor this (I use a local DNS cache myself, but I monitor and publish my results).
Also direct to SQL would save me a lot of hassle, just like the original poster said.
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