Cannot find server or DNS error

[dan]

Evertime I try to access my hotmail account, after logging
in and clicking on 'inbox' I wait around sometime until I
get the message that the page could not be opened.

The same problem occurs with yahoo mail. And similar
problems occur with windows update. In fact, it occurs
with many other internet sites.

The best improvement yet was to activate TLS 1.0 on
internet explorer. Doing that got me to the page after
logging in to hotmail. But I still cant read my mail. Or
should I say it's incredibly slow.

At the bottom of the message that the page could not be
opened it says that it cannot find server or that there's
a DNS error.

This computer uses IP-dsl. Is there anyway to solve this
problem?

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Evertime I try to access my hotmail account, after logging
in and clicking on 'inbox' I wait around sometime until I
get the message that the page could not be opened.

The same problem occurs with yahoo mail. And similar
problems occur with windows update. In fact, it occurs
with many other internet sites.

The best improvement yet was to activate TLS 1.0 on
internet explorer. Doing that got me to the page after
logging in to hotmail. But I still cant read my mail. Or
should I say it's incredibly slow.

At the bottom of the message that the page could not be
opened it says that it cannot find server or that there's
a DNS error.

This computer uses IP-dsl. Is there anyway to solve this
problem?

If it was working before, and not now, then I would contact your provider to
see if there are any outages or problems. I know XO and Sprint are having
some intermitten problems, at least one of clients who have both services
(they have mulitple sites) is having intermittent issues and Sprint and XO
are pointing fingers at each other over it at this time. Me thinks it maybe
the Lohack worm just discovered, but then that's a guess.

Otherwise, if it never worked correctly, it maybe an MTU issue. Let me know
about the above first before I suggest a fix for a possible MTU issue.

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory