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Old September 4th, 2007, 10:24 PM
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Exclamation Re: WW2Talk.com

It's not your fault Owen. When you access the internet, your computer sends out a general request for information to another server somewhere out in the wild, (in this case ww2talk). Your request will take "hops" through several computers along the way, for example it takes me exactly 10 "hops" to get from my parent's home in Toronto to the ww2f.com server. Every DNS computer along the way must know where to send the data you gave them. When a server is changed, all the computers should me updated, and they usually are updated with the new DNS info. In this situation it seems that at least one of the DNS computers along the way has the old information, and your request is being sent to the old website. Most likely, the problem is with one of the early DNS servers your request will hit, such as your own ISP.

This is of course very simplified, but you get the idea. The fact that you got through for a short time is actually a good, it means that things are getting corrected, as slow as it might be happening.

Just have a little patience, and know that once the issue is corrected, you won't have to worry about it ever again.
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