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		brndn on March 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DNS Outage at DigitalOcean If you are showing a demo or something, you can still navigate to your DO IP address. Of course, I don't know if other things (images, etc.) on your website also rely on their DNS.

Maakuth on March 24, 2016 [–]

For that kind of emergency, you can point the domain name to the IP address via /etc/hosts (there's a similar file in Windows as well).

tracker1 on March 24, 2016 | [–]

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

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