Originally Posted by
NeilGunton
Actually I don't think that's right. You're mixing up the address of Google's DNS server with the address of the crazyguyonabike website. Referring to the page I linked to previously, you would enter 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 into the section of the first pictured dialog which has the section entitled "Use the following DNS server addresses". If you wanted to use the hosts file approach, then the line would be something like this:
69.59.196.178 crazyguyonabike.com
Since the new ip address of my server is 69.59.196.178. I'm not sure what your hosts line would do, or why it would work.
Hope that makes sense,
Neil
What it does is where the local dns server has the old computer address it forces the computer to use the new address thus ignoring any updates not yet sent to the local dns servers.