I picked up some bug on my iMac that redirected my pings to freerepblic to my home ISP yesterday. My Mac guy send me a link to fix it and he is coming by today to check it...
That was hitting everyone on FR. It wasn't a bug on your Mac. The sale of Verizon's accounts to Frontier somehow hosed the resolution of the name of FR to the actual address for almost everyone in the country. . . it took almost 24 hours to get it fixed. JR finally got it straightened out about 5:30 Pacific Time yesterday. I got hit by it at 12:30 AM