The Battlefield Blog follows up on the EA server outage reported earlier, saying this was due to a problem outside of their control, but things are up and running again. They also warn servers will go offline overnight for maintenance, adding that after today's fix for PunkBuster issues, they are still investigating other reported Battlefield: Bad Company 2 connectivity and stability problems:

As you probably noticed, we have experienced an outage across EA servers today, this was caused by a routing issue outside of EA's control but it has been solved and things are back up and running again. Tomorrow at 8:00 GMT/9:00 CET and 12:00 (midnight) PST the EA servers will be brought down for maintenance. There is no current time for when the servers will return so keep an eye on our Twitter for more up to date information as we get it: http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2

On a more positive note, we have released the R6 server to server providers today which should stop the PB INIT FAILURE messages that have been causing problems recently, as well as releasing new server versions, we are still investigating and fixing connectivity and stability problems that are being reported in the forums http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/.