A couple of web sites I maintain got hit with an ICANN mistake where the powers that be wonder if a domain name's owner is still active and try to find out by blindly removing the name from the internet and waiting to see if anyone complains.
Noticed the same thing, here.
Verizon sold FL, TX, CA customers to Frontier. That occured on Friday with major problems. The DNS changed today and I had the same problem.
Frontier is blocking Freerepublic.com by removing it from their DNS tables. DNS is the internet address book.
I recommend going to OpenDNS. Many good reasons to use them. Plus FR works. Its a simple change on your PC or Internet router.
Happened to me and then I reflexively hit my bookmark and BAM it is back. I tried ISITDOWN and it reported an up an running website but I kept getting DNS error message
My Mom in Florida just called that she couldn’t get onto FR - being blocked. Their service was changed to frontier from Verizon.
I remotely accessed her computer and it’s down alright...keeps coming up to a Frontier search page.
Running a ‘down for everyone or just me’ on her computer shows it’s not just her.
I just tried from my Android Verizon phone and same error.
When it was down, I couldn't ping it either (from a command prompt). I've seen DNSs lose names because of various faults, but going up and down like yo-yos all over the country is a new one on me.
I just ran into an DNS problem from Comcast in Albuquerque. Tried to look up the IP on my AWS VM and got 174.137.132.28 which when I put in my hosts file redirected to an obvious malware site with a loud “this is a security alert, please panic and install our crapware” type of spam. (I didn’t LOL) I’ve now put in the 209.157.64.200 IP in my hosts file and am able to get here, but it appears there may be some malicious monkeyshines going on with the DNS. You may want to investigate.
This is due to an outage. A simple fix is to add the IP addres (thanks for posting it) to your Hosts file (Windows: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts, Linux, Apple I assume, /etc/hosts). You need to have admin rights to update it. Add the following entry on line by itself:
209.157.64.200 www.freerepublic.com
I suspect a DNS cache poisoning attack or some such that’s trying to swap the 174.xxx.yyy.28 malware IP for freerepublic.com, since that’s what I got on my AWS VM for “host freerepublic.com”. You may get different (or no) results on different parts of the Internet. It’s now back to the correct IP at my AWS VM, but be careful. DON’T put the 174 address in your hosts file — It’s a malware server from what I saw.
This afternoon I was able to get FR on my iPad but not my iPhone. Cleared cookies, history & restarted no luck. I looked at my wifi settings. I had changed the DNS server on iPhone to 8.8.8.8. (Google’s ?)
I changed it back to the same setting on iPad- was able to access FR.
(I forget why (troubleshoot maybe) but I had changed the DNS setting on iPhone months ago. )
FR was the only website which would not load. “Server not found”. I had no problems with other sites.
I had the same problem. Called Centurylink and even they couldn’t ping it. Said that it was a problem on Freerepublic’s end. I switched to OPENDNS and everything works great again.
I had the same problem via centurylink. Thanks for the solution. Hope Jim is able to track this down!!
Thanks. Surfing from my phone sucks.
We use the twitter server nowadays.
My laptop and tablet cannot connect to FR for the last 4 hours. I get the following message: Sorry, we couldn’t find that page.
My internet is with Charter, and have never had this problem before today. I’ve tried using both Chrome and Opera browsers. Fortunately, my phone can still connect, but what small print...! Hope FR is not under cyber attack.
Chaos, on the Left.
The plan!!
My Android phone works OK now. FR come up just fine.