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I've been on the phone with Comcast all morning. Apparently, they changed out a bunch of equipment overnight, and that's been causing problems here in Howard County. What they told me to do was this - rest my router to factory settings. They figured it would pull the proper IP information after that. The Cable Modem actually gets the IP information iirc, but what the heck - I did it just so that they'd get off that page of the script. Well, as expected, that did nothing. I just got off the phone with a more knowledgeable tech, and he confirmed that my problem is not isolated - they have no idea why resetting the router is working for some people and not for others

The problem is DNS resolution. I can get to the NY Times, but I can't get to Yahoo. If I know the IP address in question, I can ping it. The part that's really screwy is that it's a partial problem - I can see this server, and the Smalltalk site for Cincom - but I can't resolve the main Cincom site. Truly bizarre. This pretty much shoots my productivity to heck, because the mail servers I use are on the list of sites I can't resolve. Arghhh....