Ha yes. You could get a job in IT tech support.  How’s your Windows 10 doing? 

 

MTA: posted in the tech support forum.

 

MTA2: maybe I should try clearing my browser history; that’s the other thing IT tech support would tell me.

With what you've tried so far, a change in DNS would definitely be the next step to try, but you can also wait it out and it will probably fix itself in a couple of hours.

 

Is it a looped course this year?

it is like one big loop.

 

In '12 it was like a 5 ot 6 mile loop run multiple times. This way, you just run your ass off at the word go and won't have to think about it mentally.

 

Say hi to Sara and Molly for me! Of course I could've registered and done it myself, but I couldn't see past NY. 

you were totally FOCUSED. Not a bad thing at all.

When the tryouts were in Houston, it was the day before the marathon and the route was run backwards if I remember. Or something different than the marathon, like the loops LRB mentioned (I don't recall). A friend of mine spectated that day and then ran the marathon herself.

When the tryouts were in Houston, it was the day before the marathon and the route was run backwards if I remember. Or something different than the marathon, like the loops LRB mentioned (I don't recall). A friend of mine spectated that day and then ran the marathon herself.

Maybe it was the half marathon, I'm not sure, but there were regular people running on the course with the elites, that's why I thought it was so cool.

 

I was one of the last holdouts at my company. Generally no change is good. But eventually you’ll be forced to succumb. 

Yea, like very soon. It didn't work last time, so it would be nice if those doing it would communicate with some other departments about things I use.

 

Every Internet connected device needs a DNS server to map a domain name ("runningahead.com") to an IP address (204.12.34.123), because Internet actually works with IP adresses, but humans prefer to use domain names.

 

So your Internet Service Provider (ISP) has a DNS server, and it is automatically (unless you change it manually) pushed to your device. So when you connect your phone to WiFi, you get to use the DNS server of your ISP, and your device uses that DNS server to "translate" runningahead.com to its IP address.

 

DNS servers have "caches", with a Time To Live (TTL) on each of their records. So let's say it's a freshly booted DNS server with an empty cache, you will ask your DNS server to look for runningahead.com. It doesn't have it in its cache so it will  query for the IP address (to another DNS server) and when it gets the result, it will send it to you, and put it in its own cache, so next time you ask it will be able to send it to you right away.

 

Now, if the cached value gets invalid for a reason (not frequent but it happens), it will return to you the wrong IP address until the TTL on its cache expires, and it will then query for the IP address anew.

 

So if it's a DNS issue, it should resolve itself with time.

Whenever I see DNS, I think of my marathon in 2013. 

Cyberic,  I actually understand that. To me, that's the sign of a great IT guy, you can make non IT folks understand.