Minsk.. i believe he was saying that Microsoft added those to the hosts file.. (as a joke) and yes you would just get a blank page as 127.0.0.1 is the ip address for LOCALHOST meaning your machine.. since your machine probably doesnt host the MDL forums its not going to find anything resulting in a blank page.. remove those lines from the hosts file.. 8)
lol, I said that MS (Microsoft) had added those lines to your hosts file Of course you can't access MDL if you add those lines, it will redirect MDL to your own PC
Apparently there's no hosts file blocking, W8.1 WMC clean install and updated ISP could be? if it's wireless try wired or opposite, worked once it was intermittent on wire and going wireless made it work, Mine on wire wouldn't disconnect or connect manually, had to verify with Firefox. hope this helps
Here the screen hope you read French Lol now I just notice that's the same problem with Win 7.1 when I try to access MDL otherwise there's no problem directly to forum . My thought is like Pauldesmond now.
Its not a DNS problem look the ping request the forums.mydigitallife.net has been resolved to an IP and he is receiving a reply meaning no problem with connection but browser.
I have the same problem i resolve the name but blank page i used Firefox and when i activated the web developper tools i have an error in the file Check.php at the Line 26 When you migrate windows 8 to 8.1 i have no problem....
Ad Block plus doesnt break the site (easy list filter... i usually use the fanboy one but that got removed it seems)
you obviously can access this site by using another machine. Which browser settings are on this one and on the one that does not work. It only can be the browser as ping seems to run properly.