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.


?????????

Re: any truth to this jonathan by Jonathan

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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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1532201c446b7$6e02e720$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> 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.
>
>
> ?????????
>
>