Realm down

[devzero]

I was kicked out of the battle.net rather unexpected the other day, and was unable to get into it again. I can log on to my account just fine but when i get to the charater selection screen i get "realm down" message. I logged on with topaz chat program and whispered a friend just to make sure, and he was still in the game.

Does anyone know a workaround to this bug, except to wait it out?