news.php.net NNTP server down?

Hi all, I've been using the newsserver at nntp://news.php.net to view the mailinglists for quite a while now; it has always worked (it was very slow and very often timed out, but in the end it always did work). Unfortunately somewhere this week it stopped working for me. Somewhere between the 5th of january and the 9th, unfortunately I can't be more precise. It might be just me, but for a few days now, the connection keeps timing out. It used to do that before, but then after a few minutes, it worked. Now it hasn't come back for the last 2 days anymore... So I was wondering if anything changed? - Tul