YES....it’s really strange. I hope JimRob and John get this figured out, fast.
So sorry you were knocked off of the site. Happened to me, too...but only for about 30 mins. I have no idea how I fixed it...but, all seems to be well, now.
DNS problems eventually "resolve themselves." The propogation of the correction takes longer to some places than to others - same with propogation of the mistake. Like ripples on a pond.
I went through this today with 2 different computers. Tried to get to Free Republic with the following error: “Server not found”.
How I fixed it..
Go to Start:
Run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Open with notepad.
Go to the bottom of the page, and add ‘209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com’
(The last two lines should look like the below when done)
~~
::1 localhost
209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com
~~
Leave 2 or 3 spaces between the ip number and freerepublic.com ... In the post it kind of looks like I ran them together. ~ Hope this helps someone!! :)