I can get on the web site hosting so it does seem to be a DNS propogation issue. If you still can't get onto it after restarting, go to start, run and type 'cmd' (without the quotes) and press enter. You will get the command prompt up. Then type 'ipconfig/flushdns' (without the quotes again) press enter and that should flush your DNS. You can then try accessing the web site hosting again.
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Originally Posted by paulmann
Out of interest can anyone explain why the 1st address works but the 2nd doesn't? What difference does omitting the www make?
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When you access
http://domain.com you are usually accessing the IP address of the server assigned in the DNS. So in this case, the A record for domain.com would be IP address of the server. Now, for
www.domain.com you create an additional DNS entry which is CNAME. For www the CNAME would be domain.com which basically tells your computer if it accesses the
www.domain.com to read the domain.com entry. If you don't have the up to date version of the DNS, your computer doesn't know to do that, hence the problems you're having.