What's happened to Microsoft?

I've always find Microsoft sites to be slow, in all honesty. I tried loading it just then, white page without loading for a few seconds but then it all just appeared. If you can't load it I suspect you are having DNS problems (or rather, your ISP is).
 
Opened instantly for me, no lag whatsoever.
 
trencheel303 said:
I've always find Microsoft sites to be slow, in all honesty. I tried loading it just then, white page without loading for a few seconds but then it all just appeared. If you can't load it I suspect you are having DNS problems (or rather, your ISP is).
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Nope - already tried changing DNS to no avail.

Can't say it worries me - just get on easily if I ever have to by using another identity in a VM.
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arclight said:
Same here a minute ago.
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It doesn't seem to be anyone else having this problem except me :'(

And it doesn't seem to be any other sites, just Microsoft - but I can't figure why.

Unless they're out to get me for still using XP :shake:
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Try opening a command prompt on the main machine and the VM it works on and run:

ping www.microsoft.com

on both machines.

Is the IP address the same?
 
petersmart said:
It doesn't seem to be anyone else having this problem except me :'(

And it doesn't seem to be any other sites, just Microsoft - but I can't figure why.

Unless they're out to get me for still using XP :shake:
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Try another browser? No good? Cleaned the browser cache and still no good? Then it is /etc/hosts file with a bit of virus goodies. I have no idea where it is on windows but you could easily find it.

Next time install a linux or buy a mac :thumbs:
 
I tried pinging it but it timed out - I have a very slow internet connection connecting to the 3 network via wireless router then small wifi dongles on my machines.

OK for connecting to here etc and general surfing but at the moment is very slow.

I've had this problem on both PCs so doubt it's a virus etc as my usual surfing PC is a duo core running XP PRO and this one is an i7 at the moment running WIN 7 64 bit.
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petersmart said:
I tried pinging it but it timed out -
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I was interested in the IP address it was trying to ping. For me I have:

Code: 
[andy@MAINSERVER /storage]$ ping www.microsoft.com
PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (65.55.57.27): 56 data bytes

I just wanted to see if the address resolves to the same IP address in all places.
 
arad85 said:
I was interested in the IP address it was trying to ping. For me I have:

Code: 
[andy@MAINSERVER /storage]$ ping www.microsoft.com
PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (65.55.57.27): 56 data bytes

I just wanted to see if the address resolves to the same IP address in all places.
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I was interested in this thread as I have been experiencing intermittent DNS server issues, but will start a new thread to cover that once my researches are finished.

- last night I did the same ping test to Microsoft and it also timed out, and the IP address was the same result as yours (65.55.57.27), but this morning it was:

Code: 
[I]ping [url]www.microsoft.com[/url]
Pinging lb1.[url]www.ms.akadns.net[/url] [64.4.11.42] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.[/I]

But then repeating it 30 minutes later it reverted back to 65.55.57.27

These were made on a PC running Windows XP.
 
Yes, different IPs will be a red herring. What do you get if you run the ping on the machine that can't browse the microsoft site?
 
True. I don't use windows commands very often (I have cygwin installed here) so always plump for the lowest common denominator...
 
Back to running XP on my surfing PC - when pinging through native XP it says that it can't find host microsoft.com but through a VM running Win7 32bit spoofed to America it just says the request timed out, but through THAT VM I CAN connect to Microsoft through the address line.

Incidentally pinging successive attempts through the American VM it shows both the IPs mentioned above so I assume some kind of load balancing taking place at their servers?
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Try an ipconfig /flushdns

Might be worth doing also ipconfig /release and then ipconfig /renew
 
petersmart said:
Back to running XP on my surfing PC - when pinging through native XP it says that it can't find host microsoft.com but through a VM running Win7 32bit spoofed to America it just says the request timed out, but through THAT VM I CAN connect to Microsoft through the address line.
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DNS settings are wrong then....

what does running

ipconfig /all

at a command prompt give you? (you should do this twice, once on a machine that can resolve microsoft.com and a second time on a machine that can't...)
 
MICROSOFT IS BACK!! :clap:

In fact it seems to have been all my own fault.

A few weeks ago I was checking my router and decided to change the MAC address to see what would happen.

As it turned out, and as far as I could see, nothing happened and everything worked the same way.

Obviously though, something happened, because I've just reset my router and now I can get Microsoft.

It was the suggestions about ipconfig etc which jogged my memory and now seems to have fixed it.

Not quite sure how a MAC address can affect an IP address or a DNS but maybe someone out there can enlighten me.
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petersmart said:
MICROSOFT IS BACK!! :clap: In fact it seems to have been all my own fault. A few weeks ago I was checking my router and decided to change the MAC address to see what would happen. As it turned out, and as far as I could see, nothing happened and everything worked the same way. Obviously though, something happened, because I've just reset my router and now I can get Microsoft. It was the suggestions about ipconfig etc which jogged my memory and now seems to have fixed it. Not quite sure how a MAC address can affect an IP address or a DNS but maybe someone out there can enlighten me. .
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The MAC address of your router?

You may have had several issues with your adsl for stRters as your ISP won't have been expecting connections from that hardware address.
 
neil_g said:
The MAC address of your router?

You may have had several issues with your adsl for stRters as your ISP won't have been expecting connections from that hardware address.
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I don't have ADSL just a 3 mobile dongle plugged into my router, and, apart from Microsoft, have had no other problems.

So I assume the MAC address just goes to the dongle which has its own MAC address which will be the one transmitted.
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