Akami had a global outage and DNS servers need to be re-routed. We are in the process of doing that. Most servers should be out now and working on the rest.
it is not nonsense. It does happen at IB every night. IB loose connection once every 24 hours (any farm, slightly past midnight of farm time). We are in US, and it was typically between 12:10-12:30am window. Markets are open at this time, and we had enough issues with entering and exiting positions (not often but often enough), to make us switch to another broker.
However, the issue of this thread, has nothing to do with it.