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ConfusedJ had this to say:


Galen

I think you hit it with the ISP DNS comment. I had not thought of
that and now, by magic, it is working again. When I accesed by dial
up it was with a different ISP to the one I use for ADSL (Frreserve)

Thanks for your input

J

No problem. What happens in MOST cases is the ISP checks one (or more) of
the DNS servers for the IP address or nameserver's IP address I guess I
should say. This IP may have changed and needed time to propagate to the new
address. The server could have been giving you an old address which would
eventually MAYBE route to the correct IP address if you allowed enough hops
in your TTL (Time to Live) settings. That's only a MAYBE however. It was
likely the DNS server or your ISP working out a bug or, alternatively, the
site changed IP addresses and hadn't the new one hadn't been resolved and
cached yet.

Galen
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