What's wrong with MSN.com?

granfire

Sr. Grandmaster
seems to be nonexistent since yesterday.....


Now I have to find a new homepage for breaking non-news and the weather...:confused:
 
Its working for me! Here is the non-news of the day.

A singer wants a baby.
A movie star doesn't like the paparazzi.
Dating sucks.
A NASCAR driver crashed
Its 36 degrees in southern NH :D
 
MSN.com resolves to 65.55.206.228. I wonder if your ISP's DNS is a bit dodgy?

What happens when you click on this link:

http://65.55.206.228
 
Blank as in a plain white page? Or blank as in the usual "page cannot be found" message?
 
That or a clogged browser cache. Unfortunately MSN.com doesn't allow ping or traceroute so my diagnostic kung-fu is limited.
 
white as the newly fallen snow.

Open a command window and type:
tracert msn.com

The trace will go across several hops before printing nothing but asterisks and Request Timed Out messages. Can you please try that and paste the results you get before it turns to all asterisks? Should look something like this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Administrator>tracert msn.com

Tracing route to msn.com [65.55.206.228]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 27 ms 52 ms 9 ms 73.194.112.1
3 12 ms 13 ms 31 ms te-0-6-0-0-sur01.nashua.nh.boston.comcast.net [6
8.87.153.29]
4 15 ms 24 ms 18 ms te-1-6-0-0-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [6
8.85.106.101]
5 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms he-2-5-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68
.86.94.201]
6 42 ms 46 ms 41 ms pos-0-0-0-0-pe01.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.n
et [68.86.87.122]
7 * 54 ms * as8075-1.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.net [75.1
49.230.34]
8 41 ms 38 ms 53 ms ge-1-0-0-59.nyc-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.46.
74]
9 47 ms 52 ms 47 ms xe-0-1-2-0.blu-96c-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.46.14
2]
10 50 ms 70 ms 47 ms xe-1-0-0-0.blu-96c-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.43.16
8]
11 52 ms 50 ms 48 ms ten8-2.blu-76c-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.47.153]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 ^C
C:\Users\Administrator>
 
Open a command window and type:
tracert msn.com

The trace will go across several hops before printing nothing but asterisks and Request Timed Out messages. Can you please try that and paste the results you get before it turns to all asterisks? Should look something like this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Administrator>tracert msn.com

Tracing route to msn.com [65.55.206.228]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 27 ms 52 ms 9 ms 73.194.112.1
3 12 ms 13 ms 31 ms te-0-6-0-0-sur01.nashua.nh.boston.comcast.net [6
8.87.153.29]
4 15 ms 24 ms 18 ms te-1-6-0-0-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [6
8.85.106.101]
5 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms he-2-5-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [68
.86.94.201]
6 42 ms 46 ms 41 ms pos-0-0-0-0-pe01.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.n
et [68.86.87.122]
7 * 54 ms * as8075-1.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.net [75.1
49.230.34]
8 41 ms 38 ms 53 ms ge-1-0-0-59.nyc-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.46.
74]
9 47 ms 52 ms 47 ms xe-0-1-2-0.blu-96c-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.46.14
2]
10 50 ms 70 ms 47 ms xe-1-0-0-0.blu-96c-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.43.16
8]
11 52 ms 50 ms 48 ms ten8-2.blu-76c-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.47.153]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 ^C
C:\Users\Administrator>

you lost me at 'command window'

:uhohh:
 
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