Connect to minecraft.net by IP instead of name?

[Teraku]

For some reason, I can't connect to minecraft.net by domain name when I'm on certain networks. I can, however, connect by IP. Just not by name. No matter what I try. Editing hosts, using Google's DNS, nothing works.

So, is there any way to force the launcher to connect to minecraft.net by IP instead of by name?

Thanks in advance.

[gotyaoi]

If you have hosts set up correctly, that's sort of what it should be doing. If you're trying the alternate methods after already having it fail once, it could be caching a bad DNS return, not necessarily on your computer, but somewhere more upstream. Nothing much you could do but wait in that case.