MSN Messenger suddenly whining aout "key ports"?

MSN Messenger 7.5
Error 80072eff

I had a good connection and suddenly all is dead. With the "Solving
connection problems" part of Messenger, all the test are okay until it comes
to "Key ports" ... that test fails and it says that my proxy (which I don't
use) or my firewall (where I didn't change 1 thing) is the problem. Curious
on that because Messenger worked just fine before with all the same
settings?

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TheCroW
Wed Feb 14 11:34:09 CST 2007

> MSN Messenger 7.5
> Error 80072eff
>
> I had a good connection and suddenly all is dead. With the "Solving
> connection problems" part of Messenger, all the test are okay until it
> comes to "Key ports" ... that test fails and it says that my proxy (which
> I don't use) or my firewall (where I didn't change 1 thing) is the
> problem. Curious on that because Messenger worked just fine before with
> all the same settings?
>
> --
> Menno

Never mind ... think my ISP has DNS issues. More sites are suddenly not
available, like MSN.com and microsoft.com

Menno

Jonathan
Wed Feb 14 21:47:51 CST 2007

Greetings,

That'll do it ;)

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"TheCroW" <news@nospam3dart4u.com> wrote in message
news:12t6i0p2lttug68@corp.supernews.com...
>> MSN Messenger 7.5
>> Error 80072eff
>>
>> I had a good connection and suddenly all is dead. With the "Solving connection problems"
>> part of Messenger, all the test are okay until it comes to "Key ports" ... that test fails
>> and it says that my proxy (which I don't use) or my firewall (where I didn't change 1
>> thing) is the problem. Curious on that because Messenger worked just fine before with all
>> the same settings?
>>
>> --
>> Menno
>
> Never mind ... think my ISP has DNS issues. More sites are suddenly not available, like
> MSN.com and microsoft.com
>
> Menno
>

TheCroW
Thu Feb 15 03:53:14 CST 2007

Yep, it did :-)
But still somewhat strange to see that Messenger is blaming my proxy
settings or my firewall settings (iaw a setting on my system) while in fact
there was nothing wrong on my system. A bit like a ISP heldesk: they blame
you and your system first before looking for errors n their own side ;-)

Menno

> Greetings,
>
> That'll do it ;)
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "TheCroW" <news@nospam3dart4u.com> wrote in message
> news:12t6i0p2lttug68@corp.supernews.com...
>>> MSN Messenger 7.5
>>> Error 80072eff
>>>
>>> I had a good connection and suddenly all is dead. With the "Solving
>>> connection problems" part of Messenger, all the test are okay until it
>>> comes to "Key ports" ... that test fails and it says that my proxy
>>> (which I don't use) or my firewall (where I didn't change 1 thing) is
>>> the problem. Curious on that because Messenger worked just fine before
>>> with all the same settings?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Menno
>>
>> Never mind ... think my ISP has DNS issues. More sites are suddenly not
>> available, like MSN.com and microsoft.com
>>
>> Menno
>>
>
>

Jonathan
Thu Feb 15 22:04:46 CST 2007

Hi,

The Messenger errors are basically generic. There's that one and "temporarily unavailable".

Ugh, ISPs -- "have you run antispyware?", like that has anything to do with the fact that the
modem online light is off.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
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"TheCroW" <news@nospam3dart4u.com> wrote in message
news:12t8bcqkkrjjb50@corp.supernews.com...
> Yep, it did :-)
> But still somewhat strange to see that Messenger is blaming my proxy settings or my
> firewall settings (iaw a setting on my system) while in fact there was nothing wrong on my
> system. A bit like a ISP heldesk: they blame you and your system first before looking for
> errors n their own side ;-)
>
> Menno
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> That'll do it ;)
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
>> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>> --
>>
>> "TheCroW" <news@nospam3dart4u.com> wrote in message
>> news:12t6i0p2lttug68@corp.supernews.com...
>>>> MSN Messenger 7.5
>>>> Error 80072eff
>>>>
>>>> I had a good connection and suddenly all is dead. With the "Solving connection problems"
>>>> part of Messenger, all the test are okay until it comes to "Key ports" ... that test
>>>> fails and it says that my proxy (which I don't use) or my firewall (where I didn't
>>>> change 1 thing) is the problem. Curious on that because Messenger worked just fine
>>>> before with all the same settings?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Menno
>>>
>>> Never mind ... think my ISP has DNS issues. More sites are suddenly not available, like
>>> MSN.com and microsoft.com
>>>
>>> Menno
>>>
>>
>>
>
>