Msn Mayhem

Stuartbe · 26-04-2006, 20:37

Hi guys...

Im at a customers house, just re-installed the pc for him. From the customers cable modem I am able to get out on the net and browse html.

Messenger though wont work, Cant access hotmail and getting a time-out from the messenger software.

Donr nslookup for hotmail.com and got :-

Server: cache2.ntli.net
Address: 194.168.8.100

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: hotmail.com
Addresses: 64.4.32.7, 64.4.33.7

Web fine, Msn not !!!! anyone any idea's or having the same problems ?

Paul K · 26-04-2006, 20:53

Messenger and hotmail are fine here. No firewall in the way I take it?

Stuartbe · 26-04-2006, 20:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul

Messenger and hotmail are fine here. No firewall in the way I take it?

Nope !!!! No firewall, Web and pop,smtp, ftp and all others o.k.

Mesenger wont connect and hotmail wont log in. Proxy changed (for all the good that does to messenger) Latest ver. running.

N.B. Same pc on a bulldog connection logs in with no problems.

26-04-2006, 21:00

I'm unable to log into mine too at present!

I get the message service temp unavailable!

Graham M · 26-04-2006, 21:06

Setting/Unsetting a proxy in IE could help it has stopped me accessing MSN away before when I had IE set to an NTL proxy

Fingy · 26-04-2006, 21:18

My msn is giving the temp unavailable message too.

Stuartbe · 26-04-2006, 21:33

The error on the truobleshooter is indicating a ports problem.

When you try and log in to hotmail you get the sign in page but when the username and password is entered the browser sitts there trying to connect and then comes up with a page canot be displayed error + Connected with the IP address instead of the url and get the same result.

The same PC works fully on another ISP connection so its not the PC.

I have the customers mac and address if any NTL bods fancy helping me out on this one.

I suspect its a dodgey modem or an ntl core problem, Cant see how a cable modem would fail and still allow http though ???????

N.B. While I was there the modem lost sync a couple of times !

! I hate this keyboard !

ikthius · 26-04-2006, 21:37

same here, I cannot log into msn live beta as well

I have checked the error code from the FAQs but they don't have my code listed.

810003c5 temp unavailable.

ik

Fingy · 26-04-2006, 21:46

Mine is back... 8.0 beta

ikthius · 26-04-2006, 21:47

sorry I just found,

if you have tampered with your host file (got some stuff in it to stop malicious sites from saving bad cookies and such like), you may have MSN related entries in their, try asking MSN help to repair your host file, this fixed my connection.

now going to investigate if it now has let go of all of my entries from my host file......

ik