I'll second that possibility that you've got a proxy hijacking your machine. A couple years back I picked up something that set me to some proxy server, and it was a real pain to get rid of.

Lawrie is right about ping not caching. DNS caching is another story entirely.


-- David Cuny

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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?

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