Resolved Issues connecting to mcmiddleearth.com (Can't resolve hostname)

[Finrod_Amandil]

Dear devs and @q220

Since a few days (less than a week i think) I'm very often having problems to connect to servers, forums and dynmap. This has never occurred before. The issues are irregularily appearing; it's even possible that Build server is accessible while Freebuild is not; mostly its resolved automatically after a short time (its nevertheless annoying).

Internet connection is fine; all other websites are accessible as usual.

Was anything mcmiddleearth-side changed and/or is anyone getting the same issue?

Screens:
Server list:

Trying to access build.mcmiddleearth.com via Direct Connect:

Error page for Forums and Dynmap (with translations of german texts)

Config:
Windows 7 64-bit
+ Google Chrome

Minecraft 1.7.10
+ Forge; JourneyMap Mod, Shaders Mod, Optifine
+ Liteloader; daflight

 

[q220]

Looks like your isp domain name servers are very rubbish in resolving hostnames, can be because they are working on some of their services. I advise switching to Google Public DNS https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

It should properly resolve the hostname again then, otherwise there might be a program that prevents you from sending a resolve request.

 

[Finrod_Amandil]

Alright, thx very much for the prompt solution; let's see if it works

 

[q220]

Did this work for you?

 

[Finrod_Amandil]

Did this work for you?

Hard to tell yet, until now everything is working fine, but it could get worse any moment; but I assume it did work. Thx for the help again

 

[Dallen]

Another solution is to get the IPs for the servers and connect to them. 'ping <server name>' will give you the ip on both unix and windows. Best of luck. (Google will be much easier though)