From the looks of this from my server in Troy:
greg@uno:~$ dig 53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com
; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P3 <<>> 53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 31328
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nap.wideopenwest.com. 3585 IN SOA nap.wideopenwest.com. dwalden.wideopenwest.com. 2011030200 28800 14400 360000 86400
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 17 04:58:08 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 102
AND this (google's DNS servers):
greg@maxime:~ [0] $ dig 53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com
; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> 53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2368
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nap.wideopenwest.com. 1800 IN SOA nap.wideopenwest.com. dwalden.wideopenwest.com. 2011030200 28800 14400 360000 86400
;; Query time: 83 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 17 04:59:01 2011
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 102
The problem appears to be with the delegation host/setup for WOW, they don't have the ARPA reverse names that are pointed to setup properly.
For now you can put in you /etc/hosts to fix it up for them for now:
64.53.181.95 53-64-95-181.static.nap.wideopenwest.com
64.53.181.95 whatever.something.com
64.53.181.95 whatever2.something.com