if you want to see if the master server is down you can go to start > programs > accessories > command prompt/MSDOS prompt and type in:
ping etmaster.idsoftware.com
for wolf i think its just master.idsoftware.com.
If it doesnt ping, its either your firewall, your ISP’s routing or the server itself is down. If you swap “ping” with “tracert” you get more info about the path to the server- basically if it times out, gets VERY high ping or a “destination net unreachable” at a “hop” server halfway there, its probably your ISP routing, if it gets nowhere its probably your firewall and if it makes it to every hop except the master then its probably the master server down
Either way All Seeing Eye (or pathfinder, gamespy, whatever) should be fine and personally I prefer it a lot anyway.