Can't get BBC site..

[Neil]

Originally Posted by entwisi

All I did was bypass the dns lookup. if it goes again you can 'get round the issue by putting a special entry in a special file on your computer. its called hosts and lives in C:\windows\etc\drivers This is windows local lookup and overrides any ISP ones. Let me know if you ever need to do it and I'll send you the details

Or you could do something simple like go to http://www.opendns.com/ and use their DNS server's instead of your ISP's

[entwisi]

heh, yep, I posted that link myself a long time ago!

[Kiwi John]

Originally Posted by entwisi

All I did was bypass the dns lookup. if it goes again you can 'get round the issue by putting a special entry in a special file on your computer. its called hosts and lives in C:\windows\etc\drivers This is windows local lookup and overrides any ISP ones. Let me know if you ever need to do it and I'll send you the details

Ummmmmmmm..just let me get my head around the 'on' and 'off' switch first... (thanks though)