Hmm?
Is anyone else having a hard time getting to Wikipedia, as in being told it doesn’t exist?
It acts like a DNS problem, but could be anything.
Update: Thanks for the help. It was my ISP.
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No problem here. Maybe a momentary glitch has cleared up.
Thanks, Andante. It could also be my ISP.
I just hit it at 6pm cdt and the site came up fine.
i had problems last night [couldn’t get in at all], and again a couple of hours ago [but only briefly today].
I’ve used it a half dozen times today, and several times last night, all with no real troubles. If it was slow to come up, I wouldn’t notice, in light of the occasional momentary sluggishness of my ISP.
I finally got in at 6pm CDT as I hit my 40th minute on hold with tech support for Embarq, my DSL provider.
My guess is that their DNS was down and I was working from my cache. Their suggestion that I clear my cache would have had fairly annoying results, but that’s the answer they give for almost everything on their support page.
Thanks for the help, gals and guy. I would switch if my choice was someone other than Cox, who are even more worthless than Embarq.
Bryan, don’t assume that AT&T is uniformly better. I have occasional DNS outages that last a few seconds to a few minutes. Once I phoned the help desk in Mumbai (or wherever), told them what the problem was (why mess around), and after checking, they told me my DNS would return in two hours. Long coffee break time. There is no perfect ISP.