Tip for giving your start page a kick in the butt:

Use the following IP addresses instead of host names. 

cactus.cedarville.edu is here.
cedarville.edu is here.
ivy.cedarville.edu is here. [www.cedarville.edu]
ftp.geocities.com is here.
mail.geocities.com is here.
owl.INS.CWRU.Edu is here. [freenet-in-a]
owl.INS.CWRU.Edu is here. [freenet]
www.geocities.com is here.
www.geocities.com is here. [alternate]
www.globalink.com is here.
www.lycos.com is here.
www.washingtonpost.com is here.
www2.yahoo.com is here.
www3.yahoo.com is here.
www4.yahoo.com is here.
www5.yahoo.com is here.
www7.yahoo.com is here.
www8.yahoo.com is here.
www8.yahoo.com is here.
www9.yahoo.com is here.
www3.netscape.com is here.
www2.netscape.com is here.
www4.netscape.com is here.
www5.netscape.com is here.
www6.netscape.com is here.
www7.netscape.com is here.
www8.netscape.com is here.
www9.netscape.com is here.
www15.netscape.com is here.
www17.netscape.com is here.
www18.netscape.com is here.
www19.netscape.com is here.

If you need some more lookups, try doing a Ping hostname from your Unix account. It should give you something like 

Pinging www.nbc.com [192.35.39.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.35.39.100: bytes=32 time=140ms TTL=242
Reply from 192.35.39.100: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=242

and there's your IP address. (If that doesn't work, try 

host www.nbc.com
and it might do a lookup for you. Putting IP addresses in your startup document might speed up connexions.

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