Problem was not you. Problem was likely a temp. setup of DNS records, somewhere, but yesterday, that temp. setup somehow changed.
For a while after the last migration of FreeRepublic.com, the old IP address of 209.157.64.200 was still involved with some of FreeRepublic.com traffic . . . but I checked yesterday, and that old IP address is no longer involved.
So, “something happened,” re DNS records, somewhere, but I am not sure, exactly.
If it changes ed, would al, of our dns’s have just automatically changed to the new address?