URGENT NOTICE: DNS changes
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 2:51 pm
We are doing some network reconfigurations which may cause some temporary website outages. If you can't see this message, then you're already in the dark - but the goal of this is to get the word out ahead of time, and to those who can still see this message, so they can tell the people who are having a hard time getting onto the website.
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Anyway ... just a heads up. Better this confusing post than nothing at all. 
THIS WILL BEGIN WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR (starting around 4pm EST / 9pm GMT)
UPDATE:
If you cannot see the website or get this error message:
open a command prompt on your PC (Start > Run > cmd) and type:
And hit ENTER.
This will manually flush your DNS cache and force an update. For many people, this will instantly fix the problem and you'll be able to view the website again. You may have to do a manual page Refresh in your browser as well.
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THIS WILL BEGIN WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR (starting around 4pm EST / 9pm GMT)
UPDATE:
If you cannot see the website or get this error message:
,the website you are attempting to view has resently undergone an ip change or is not configured to serve webpages.
Please Wait 24 hours for the new ip address to propagate or contact your web host support department for more information.
open a command prompt on your PC (Start > Run > cmd) and type:
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ipconfig /flushdnsThis will manually flush your DNS cache and force an update. For many people, this will instantly fix the problem and you'll be able to view the website again. You may have to do a manual page Refresh in your browser as well.