Recent zone loading freezes, crashes, & failure to connect to server

[Abner]

I tried the tracert to the eqemulator as well and got the same timeouts after the choopa.net stuff:


13 * 49 ms 49 ms vl23-br2.pnj1.choopa.net [66.55.130.53]
14 * 51 ms 51 ms ethernet1-2-2-c8-12-b2-1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.80.218]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.