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Originally Posted by dellwear
Even when I set DNS IP's I still can't get anything, not even MSN messenger, and that was fine last time this happened.
I'm on AOL dial up at the moment, yuck. 
edit- There's 20 guests and 2 member reading this thread, now thats just weird  |
As its not directly a DNS problem, its not suprising it still doesn't work..
The server can probably look up the ip address fine, but if you cannot connect to the actual MSN (or whatever service youre trying) because the route has failed, then it still wont connect.
The way to get around this is A) have a DNS server set, thats physically located somewhere thats not affected by this outage (ie a US DNS Server) and B) a proxy server that supports Socks4 or 5 so as you can force all of your applications to use a proxy. Most of the proxies discussed here are just web proxys, so surfing webpages might work, but other apps might still fail...