Update on the Hell Computer:

[chaobell]

Finally broke down and called AT&T support.

Spoke to a decently competent tech. Went along with everything he suggested, laughing softly every time it failed. He and I hemmed and hawed, and grumbled, and finally he brought a senior tech into the fray.

The fix: Search all files and folders for "hosts." Find a file called "hosts" with no extension. Deleted. Rebooted. Tested. It worked.

All this shit...over one file. Bah.

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i'm low lvl tech for Comcrap

[doingtimein419.livejournal.com]

i've played with my host file before, fun stuff, you can make all sort of stuff stop happening. but if you mess with it, setting stoopidpopupurl.com to 127.0.0.1. now i'm wondering if i did that would the nslookup point to that?