Guru Tugginmypuddah
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I would say it's more than likely a DNS propagation issue. Try rebooting all your devices if at home, including modem and router if you have separate components. Do a full reboot on phones, tablets and computers. If possible, search how to clear the DNS cache on your particular device, though a reboot should clear it.
Phones, tablets, computers and routers like to cache DNS requests, so it speeds up content delivery. Your local DNS cache is like an address book. As long as your friend hasn't moved, the address in your book is correct. If your friend moves, you no longer have the correct address.
There are untold copies of DNS records all over the internet. Sometimes the DNS server fulfilling the request has outdated data in it. Not every DNS request is fulfilled by the same DNS server. So you click on a forum link and that DNS request is fulfilled by one server that has the correct DNS address, another time you click a link and that request is fulfilled by another server with outdated data.
Some DNS requests are blocked if a DNS entry is new. This is a security feature to block newly registered servers from doing nefarious things.
Since the forums have moved to a new server, I would suspect that is what is happening for some people.
Phones, tablets, computers and routers like to cache DNS requests, so it speeds up content delivery. Your local DNS cache is like an address book. As long as your friend hasn't moved, the address in your book is correct. If your friend moves, you no longer have the correct address.
There are untold copies of DNS records all over the internet. Sometimes the DNS server fulfilling the request has outdated data in it. Not every DNS request is fulfilled by the same DNS server. So you click on a forum link and that DNS request is fulfilled by one server that has the correct DNS address, another time you click a link and that request is fulfilled by another server with outdated data.
Some DNS requests are blocked if a DNS entry is new. This is a security feature to block newly registered servers from doing nefarious things.
Since the forums have moved to a new server, I would suspect that is what is happening for some people.