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Unable to access Morningstar

I've been unable to access M* for last twelve hours (since 2 pm) on 3 different search engines--IE, Foxfire and Chrome. Each give the same message: unable to contact server. Is anyone else having this problem or is it my computer or computer skills (or lack thereof.) Thanks for your help.

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  • edited April 2014
    Ran into the same sort of thing with the Washington Post earlier this evening. One error message mentioned a malfunctioning internet Domain Name System (DNS). Seems to be OK now, though. Just tried M* for you- got in with no problem.
  • Just got onto M* without difficulty
  • I have problems with M* a lot while at the same time I'm able to access other websites in different tabs of my browser, so I know its not my service provider. Normally my problems only last for a couple minutes, but this has been happening for a month or more.
  • (told you it wasn't just us)

    As a quick tech update, the changes we've made seem to have substantially increased our stability. After the start of the month we're also having Green Geeks move us to a more secure server, which should help with the waves of attacks we've seen. That will take us offline for an hour or so, but we'll pick a slow time and give folks lots of advance notice.

    David
  • Friday morning and all is well with M*. Thanks for your responses.
    All it takes is patience.
  • M*, Washington Post, TDAmeritrade all had DNS problems for me yesterday.

    I'm choosing to accept it as just a coincidence for now.
  • Maybe China (or more likely the NSA) is "coincidentally" trying out some new stuff.
  • Today, add MarketWatch.Com to the list of down websites from approximately 3:00PM CST to present 4:40PM CST.
    Regards,
    Ted

  • I check "internet traffic reports" periodically just for fun. Some data for particular locations stays the same for long periods of time; so, I don't know how useful the data.

    http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

    OJ, is likely correct. The folks in Utah running a few tests.
  • I just had some trouble loading this site. Cleared up in ten minutes.
  • I hit the same DNS error yesterday. Russians? Uncle Vladimir?
  • May Day communists.
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