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For those of you who can't reach the site (and thanks Excalibur for posting your error) the problem may well be with your ISP.

 

When you put in a url and click on GO, your browser will ask the nearest DNS server to translate the name into a numeric address and to give suggested routing information.

 

For speed, most ISPs will maintain a local DNS cache of places it's members have wanted to go - saving the lookup time.

 

If this cache entry gets dinged, you may well not be able to find a URL even though it is perfectly valid.

 

Simple solution there is to call tech support and ask them to flush their cached info for a particular site. It takes them just a moment and after they do, the first request for that URL will cause the cache to be repopulated with a good address taken from a real DNS server.

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Sorry Peter. Let me restate.

 

People like sites they can point to with words such as http://anglersnet.co.uk (called a URL)

 

Computers prefer numbers and the address for AN (sorta like a postal address) is a number like 162.127.23.204 (can't give the actual since I a blocked from doing a look up here at work).

 

When you put a url in your browser and click to go to the link, your computer will ask around on the internet for some machine that can translate your URL into the numeric address and then it will go and find that numeric address.

 

The dedicated servers on the internet that maintain huge lists to perform these translations are called DNS (domain name servers). They are classed as basically regional or global DNS. If your computer asks if its regional server and gets no answer, the regional will in turn ask a global and will pass the information back to your PC after it is received.

 

All this traffic would result in some delay from your pressing GO and actually getting to AN.

 

To speed the process a bit, your ISP will maintain a very small, local DNS list that consists of only those places it's members have wanted to go. The first person on your ISP trying to get to AN would have the whole lookup process to go thru. After that, anyone going to AN would get the address from the local list at your ISP. Much faster.

 

However, the local list is not "dynamic" and stays the same even if there is a change in AN. Also, the list can get partly corrupted.

 

This would result in your getting a bogus address for AN and you would never be able to get there.

 

The techies at your ISP can flush existing info about AN and get updated (and correct) information but it is not automatic so you usually have to ask them to do it.

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