Re: Microsoft websites are inaccessible


"clintonG" <csgallagher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Death8" <""Death8\"@The Door@No Hope8.com"> wrote in message
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clintonG wrote:
I've never had a problem until the past 2-3 months when out of the blue
I can not get well formed pages to load at msdn2.microsoft.com nor can I
get past a page that loads a registration page for downloading Microsoft
software. I have no problem on any other websites anywhere from any
domain.

I've heard all kinds of assumptions suggesting local cache problems to
my firewall. While I went through all the paces such assumptions seem
bogus to me as the failures are consistent and unique to requests for
pages from a specific subdomain (msdn2.microsoft.com) and a specific
page elsewhere at microsoft.com (URL of page too long to post) and
nowhere else. When did my firewall learn to discriminate?

A helpful guy finally responded stating he and others resolves similar
problems by disabling dynamic DNS on the firewall (Netgear FVS318
ProSafe VPN) but the Road Runner ISP requires dynamic DNS to be selected
on the router. Running ipconfig /all shows the same unroutable 192.168
IP Address being used noting I provided that 192.168 specific
non-routable IP Address elsewhere in the router's configuration.

These failures to reach the noted web resources have been replicated on
a friend's machine who has a different ISP. I have nowhere to turn and
do not accept how my machines on my LAN and my firewall can be the
problem.

Can anybody else confirm problems accessing pages at
msdn2.microsoft.com? Its where the ASP.NET documentation is. If you care
to try to do a Google search such as the following and then try to load
several page(s) from msdn2 using the search results...

The request for a page can and will take up to 4 minutes and if a page
is returned it will be all mangled.

//Google search...
c# site:msdn2.microsoft.com

What the f8ck?

<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/
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I am sitting in a hotel room with an 800 mhz laptop running XP Pro,
BlackIce and IPsec, IPsec as a packet filter to supplement BI, and using
a dial up. I have no problems accessing the msdn2 link for C# and the
pages are well formed.

Sometimes, you can fix a problem by doing a hard reset and power down on
the router.

The other thing you can do is flash the router again with the current or
later version of the firmware, as firmware can become kind of sick
running on the router.

BTW, I am a .NET programmer too and I'll keep that link. ;-)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

Thanks for your comments. I tried powering down and up on the router. Next
test is cabling directly to the cable modem. Still, do you have any
comments why it would be just Microsoft's msdn2 subdomain and no other
websites?

<%= Clinton


If your router has an LAN IP and you are not using DHCP on the LAN side and
you have a "192.168 specific non-routable IP Address elsewhere in the
router's configuration" means your workstation has could have a static IP
assigned if it doesn't do so, assign it a 192.168 IP. Change your DNS
servers from your ISP's to someone elses and see if the situation is
resolved, that will rule out DNS if the condition still exists.
You can get public dns servers woth a google search,
http://www.opennic.unrated.net/personal.html is one place. I use 4.2.2.1-.3
which is level 3's DNS servers, they seem to work great here..

Cliff


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