Jonathan
Sun May 30 21:39:11 CDT 2004
Greetings,
Yes actually, the IPs for Passport (and in fact for a lot of websites, MSN or not) change on
a semi-regular basis. Adding major sites like Passport to the hosts file is not recommended
and will cause problems (eventually).
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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yahoooooooooo........... oops.. rather
> MSNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....... my MSN now works,
> I found out that when I had installed Tweakmaster, I had
> enabled DNS accelerator. This stupid function had writen
> the DNS value for loginnet.passport.com in the windows
> Hosts file and in the registry. For some unknown reason all
> other methods of modifying the host file would not work. I
> then had to manually open my hosts file and delete the
> entry and now MSN works great.
>
>
> ?????????
>
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