FT is loading fine now for me. Was extremely slow last night.

My experience last night and this morning is it works for about two or three minutes, then it crashes. Try again 15-20 minutes later and repeat.

What works for me
 

I was having a great deal of trouble reaching flyertalk.com but if I use the IP address directly i.e. 64.78.185.85 then I get to the site with no problem. Not sure why the DNS resolution is causing so many problems.

Two hours ago every forum and thread I tried to look at hung so I gave up. Now it's working fine. Go figure.

I guess we should just blame the TalkBoard... ;)

:) ^ ^

Thank you, thank you!! That made a huge difference! Now it's flying again. It's been off-and-on crawling all day

This DNS problem has been affecting FlyerTalkers form all over the world; places such as Australia & New Zealand.

Here is a thread from an Oz fequent flyer Web Site: Is FT Down?

Thanks for the workaround! :) ^

Naw, just you gleff. ;)

PS: the IP address workaround is great! Thanks! ^^^

Thanks for the IP workaround. Just couldnt even bring up the logon page without it.

Indeed, using the numeric address http://64.78.185.85 really makes a huge difference. I've even bookmarked it for future use. ^

Thanks ORD4R
 

The difference is like night and day. No hanging pages, no timeouts, no giving up reading after only halfway through the forums. Really fast loading now. Hope it'll stay that way.

bj-21.

Wasn't even able to access FT yesterday, though I tried at several different times. Was able to access today. Glad my first stop was this thread, as using the IP address has made a world of difference. Thanks for pointing it out, ORD4R! ^

Still timing-out after a few minutes if I use www.flyertalk.com, but when using the IP it works fine.