Troubleshooting Can't Load PF Home Page

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Users are experiencing issues loading the PF home page, with some able to access individual forums via cached links. The problem seems to stem from errors related to the RSS feed from NASA, causing temporary failures in name resolution. This results in multiple warnings displayed at the top of the page when attempting to load it. Disabling the RSS feed feature has been suggested as a temporary fix. Overall, the discussion highlights ongoing connectivity issues tied to external content sources affecting site functionality.
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Whenever I try to load or reload the PF home page, I wait and wait and wait and...

However, I can click links on my cached copy of the home page and enter individual forums and threads OK, and I can post.

I'm using Firefox 31.0 and Safari 7.0.6 on Mac OS 10.9.4.
 
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If loads eventually for me in FF 31, but with pile of errors at the top of the page:
Code:
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents([PLAIN][PLAIN]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/rss/news.xml)[/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN]  [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents([PLAIN][PLAIN]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/rss/news.xml)[/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN]  [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents([PLAIN][PLAIN]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/rss/news.xml)[/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN]  [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365

Warning: file_get_contents([PLAIN][PLAIN]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/rss/news.xml)[/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN] [/PLAIN]  [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution in [path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 365
 
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NASA must be doing something on their side. It's messing up the RSS feed. I disabled the feature for now and will try it again later.
 
Yeah, I had the same problem. Good to see you're on it, Greg.
 
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