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gvstn

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20. I realize this should be fixed tonight.

Reply to Flying Squirrel (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2014, 10:36 PM

May 2014

I'm just curious if using the numeric address for DU makes any difference. 216.158.28.195 would be the address to put in your address bar and then hit go. It just takes you to DU without a DNS lookup.

It sounds like the problem is deeper than that and the actual page begins to load but stalls. Still I'm curious if it makes any difference.

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