Just happened to me.
When it was broken my computer was getting 108.171.164.208 as the IP of the site.
>
www.disboards.com
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:
www.disboards.com
Address: 108.171.164.208
I forced my local pi-hole DNS server to throw away its cache and it got the new IP and the page started loading.
>
www.disboards.com
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:
www.disboards.com
Address: 108.61.75.210
I don't know much about DNS but Google said this is how to check the authoritative server using nslookup:
> set query=ns
>
www.disboards.com
Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find
www.disboards.com: No answer
Authoritative answers can be found from:
disboards.com
origin = NS87.WORLDNIC.com
mail addr = namehost.WORLDNIC.com
serial = 122071011
refresh = 10800
retry = 3600
expire = 604800
minimum = 3600
When I then query that DNS server for
www.disboards.com I get:
> server ns87.worldnic.com
Default server: ns87.worldnic.com
Address: 162.159.26.131#53
>
www.disboards.com
Server: ns87.worldnic.com
Address: 162.159.26.131#53
*** Can't find
www.disboards.com: No answer
>
It would seem that the DNS for
www.disboards.com is broken.