That sounded promising. Only I get the same result

Dang it... Well, you could of course throw:

216.239.57.107 gmail.google.com

into your hosts file. If you can get to it then it's obviously your dns server you are using that's causing the problem, or the dns server your dns server is using, or the...

Some people on a listserv I belong to said they had trouble accessing Google today. I have a feeling Akamai might be having some regional DNS problems.
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