brinkett said:
I doubt it's my ISP. I didn't have a problem last time AW moved, nor have I had a problem when other sites have moved. I doubt very much an ISP would cache pages for days on end precisely because of problems like this.
Thing is, in those other cases, the old sites weren't active, so even if your system went looking for the site at the old IP, it wouldn't find it and then it would search the DNS servers for the 'real' site, which it would find and you'd be taken there. You wouldn't even be aware it had first looked for the old site.
The problem is that something either in your system or somewhere else particular to your Internet hookup for your home machine (like your ISP) is holding on to the old IP address and using it whenever you try to access the AW forums. The reason it won't 'let go' then find and use the new IP is that it keeps finding something at the old IP and doesn't look any further.
Every DNS server on the Internet should now have the new IP addy associated with Absolute Write and the forums, which is why the problem has to be something specific to your system or close to it (such as your ISP's DNS server).
Are you familiar with the 'ping' command? If so, this is what you should get if you open up a command prompt and ping
www.absolutewrite.com:C:\>ping
www.absolutewrite.com
Pinging absolutewrite.com [207.218.250.65] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 207.218.250.65: bytes=32 time=357ms TTL=52
Reply from 207.218.250.65: bytes=32 time=389ms TTL=52
Reply from 207.218.250.65: bytes=32 time=276ms TTL=52
Reply from 207.218.250.65: bytes=32 time=298ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 207.218.250.65:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 276ms, Maximum = 389ms, Average = 330ms
C:\>
If you get the IP that starts with 66, then there is something in your system that is still associating
www.absolutewrite.com with the wrong IP. Virtually every home Internet connection automatically looks to the ISP's DNS server for this association if it's not 'cached' on the computer itself. If you have eliminated this 'cached' association from your computer, then it HAS to be at your ISP because that's the next place your computer will look, and your ISP is either going to have the new IP or the old one, and you'll be taken to whichever it is.
PS -- I agree that your ISP should have the new entry on their server, it's an automatic updating system that propagates changes like this throughout the Internet in a matter of hours. Therefore, in all likelihood there is some association to the old site still buried somewhere on your computer.