[dhs12345]

On your router AND your individual PC. My router had the correct DNS, it was my PC nic (network interface card) that had its DNS settings manually overridden and forced to the google numbers. So even though my router could pass down the correct DNS addresses, my PC was overridden.

Here is a procedure to check your settings.

https://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/

Also, after further review on line, it appears that Google introduced their DNS very recently. The date on this article was Oct 2018.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Google tout it as being faster. But it gives them too much power and yes, if they so chose, they could block Free Republic. Maybe not now but definitely in the future.

Too much power in the hands of an entity that doesn't think the way that I do.

Worst of all, I didn't know that it had changed. BTW, I use OpenDNS.

[HangThemHigh]

Thanks for holding my hand, much appreciated.

I’m using Comcast dns and Google hasn’t touched them. I’ll look into opendns, seems like I used them onceupon a time.

What does your DNS software do? Any chance that was how Google did their misdeeds?