Just wondering.
Looks like only IP is available.
Thanks.
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I'm having some problems with eBay being reachable during the day on my AT&T Internet Air (5G) gateway.
The url seems to evolve into different IPs when not working. When working, stable.
Akamai is involved, somehow, based on WhoIs.
Anyway, I'm in over my head. I should probably delete this thread. 
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I think the confusion is that the OP wants to ping by hostname, rather than URL.
I'm pretty sure the Network Test tool can ping by hostname, so maybe the ping command in rule machine could be updated to accept a hostname.
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Got it! That makes a lot of sense.
So the request is for ping within Rule Machine to accept an FQDN, and not just an IP address.
I will modify the title of this post and move it to the feature request section.
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So, I guess it's not possible with RM5.1, or whatever?
Correct - that's why it is in the Features Request section.
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Can you change your DNS servers on the router? I would just try switching to something like Quad9 (9.9.9.9) or Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), or set one as primary and the other as secondary.
Thats the main two I am using with my Adguard Home setup.
I don't think so. Firefox has that feature, but that wouldn't help since the problem is the gateway or upstream of it.
A friend told me Aokmai was also a cached content provider. Both ebay and AccuWeather are affected and involve Akomai, or however it's spelled.
I seem to recall a massive outage a few years ago involving the company which took out many big time sites.
Just grasping at straws.
And now, ups.com doesn't work. Argh.
I guess I'll be going back to Spectrum.
Are you sure? The dns is what hands out those varying IP addresses. Your ISP DNS might not be doing it correctly. It might caching it too long or something.
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This thing is an AT&T 5G Internet Air Gateway. I think they have pretty tight control over it.
My phone works fine over AT&T 5G.
Not sure what that means exactly, but anyone is subject to having a misconfigured DNS server. If you test out a different DNS it will confirm or deny my theory. I am just trying to help. All those sites work fine for me, probably most everyone else in the world as well, so it is probably some sort of localized issue.
The TTL is super short on that domain. I tried to get a reply back from your server but they are probably blocking any non ISP requests.
You can use dig DOMAIN @DNS_SERVER in linux or Resolve-DnsName -Name DOMAIN -Server DNS_SERVER to get more details than ping and test different servers.
Thanks for thinking about it.
I'm adding a bunch of LR plugs at the moment.
Maybe it'll start working when I'm finished.
With ATT Internet (5G) Air, I don't think it's possible to specify DNS servers.
It used to work fine until maybe a week or two ago.
I'll just muddle along for a while, keep an eye out for a Spectrum (wire) deal.
Well you said Firefox had an option, so you could test it that way I figured.
Just for that browser.
Can't change the gateway, seemingly.
MS Edge doesn't work.
Samsung browser (Chrome?) on phone doesn't work on wifi.
Correct, the gateway needs to stay the same or nothing will work. The gateway is normally an internal LAN IP which points to your router, and is where all the traffic from your workstation goes as a first hop. It is the "gateway" to the internet.
So if you change the DNS in Firefox it does not help? You may need to wait a little bit for the current cache to clear, I am not sure if Firefox flushes the cache when you change the DNS.
It hasn't.
I'll try again later.
Thanks.
