Odd DNS Address/security issues?

I’ve been experiencing something odd in the past day or two, including today, that has my red-flag risen to three-quarters-mast.

I believe it was yesterday that I couldn’t change the # for the posted messages for Pandemic 2. I could get it for other games, but I’m not sure what was going on. I finally realized that there was a period after the ‘com’ in www.kongregate.com, like so: “www.kongregate.com.”

A similar issue came up when I went to play Platform Racing 2. A message in the chat window indicated there were achievements I could get if I were logged in. Sure enough, I wasn’t. And sure enough, there was a problem with the address. This time, it was pointing to an IP address: “65.74.171.4”

The IP addy was in all the links for the box that rotates between the recent ‘active’ achievement/card games. When I reloaded the page, it was back to Kongregate.com

I’m not sure what’s going on, but as I said, it was terribly suspicious, and I do get a bit worried when DNS fakery occurs, particularly with recent tech news about DNS issues.

yeah that happened yesterday to me too.

A trailing dot after a hostname indicates to DNS that the hostname is literal and no search suffix should be applied to it when resolving the name to an address. That alone is not an indication of a problem, just a literal hostname.

I was randomly signed out a couple days ago. Other then that, I’ve had no problems.

ive been getting that error too. Something must be up…