Escaping the 5-hour, never ending, DNS is the problem call to go get lunch at the Columbian coffee bar up the street.
SHHHH, Don't tell my coworkers I escaped.
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There are other DNS servers. I have like five set up. Only two are my provider’s.
You can do this at the router or (at least for Mac and Linux, dunno about Windows) machine level.
@feloneouscat enterprise environment, so I don't own the configuration, just the software that suddenly couldn't find its database server.