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

[phiren]

Well actually weird new troubleshooting problem discovered by accident.

Sometimes when I ping:
login.eqemulator.net

it says ping request could not find host

I tried changing up my eqhost.txt from:
[LoginServer]
Host=login.eqemulator.net:5998

to:
[LoginServer]
Host=66.55.145.2:5998

Thinking that might be it -- but still no dice. Definitely still seems like some kind of routing server @ AT&T is broken