I am OK to browse using the IP address and then my smartphone for posts until this resolves itself. Posted via AT&T Wireless.
Today the domain freerepublic.com dropped off many DNS alternatives as well, so the hosts mod is now needed. Someone is playing games again.
After watching Free Republic disappear and reappear three times yesterday, I edited the hosts file as shown and restarted the browser; and I have seen no problems since. If the DNSs are still messed up, I'm no longer being affected.
I did the hosts file mod and that worked just fine on my PC. But my iPad and iPhone are still giving me problems. I can reach FR with 209.157.64.200 but if I want to post FR asks me to login. When I do that I end up at localhost.
Hope Jim fixes this soon.
Perfect, thanks so much. Any hints on how to fix Nexus access?
Thanks. Works like a charm. Spent a chunk of the day hunting down the ip address, and then fought with windows trying to fix hosts. Your easy step-by-step got be back on and logged in in less than a minute.
If I ever flame you, remind me that I said I’d give you one free pass.
We were slammed from Verizon to Frontier last week, so I spent the first part of the morning blaming the new ISP.
Despite being an administrator on my system the security settings would not aallow me save the changes from notepad into the correct folder. I had to save the changes to a separate folder and hen copy the file to the correct location after right clicking and opening Windows Explorer as an administrator.
Testing.
Had trouble with my smart phone today when it was connected to the At&T Uverse WiFi at home. I Googled my screen name and got in that way. So far so good, and no problems running mobile.
Nasty business, that.
Thanks for the work-around. That fixes it.
Responses to posted threads seem way down.
I'll make this prediction. When we find out what caused this DNS issue, there will be some left winger at the bottom of it, most likely a homosexual.
Any thought as regards Macs? I had trouble signing in last week but finally cleared things out and am back on FR. Yesterday I had a quirk where one line of html in a list of links I was posting would not link, no matter what I did. Finally I eliminated that line, and the problem simply moved to the next link in the post. Creepy!
Pinging you to this discussion.
That worked beautifully!
Thank you!
Bless you
Thank you.
I think i’m signed in now.
For AP’s benefit...Internet, Internet, Internet, Internet, Internet, Internet, Internet, Internet. Who says you can’t capitalize the word Internet?
Is it just me or do the pages load quicker after adding it to Hosts file?
Brilliant!
Thanks very much.
It worked!!
Thank you!
THANK YOU!!
First time I've been able to follow directions given at FR and had it work.....I'm a complete computer idiot and appreciate your post very much.