I was at a school this morning, learning about business technology. We’ve got a hundred PC’s or so here, each with access to the Internet (via the school’s server). The IE launches by default to msn.com on all of these computers. Well, ever since at least eight o’clock this morning (Pacific Daylight Time), anyone trying to go into the internet has gotten the dreaded Cannot find server error message.
It’s not a completely debilitating condition (especially since last week the IS people used the Websense filter to block “games” and we can’t have Text Twist tournaments any longer ), because it’s easy enough to type a URL into the address line and get to a site that DOES work. But it’s evidently not limited to the computers at this facility; one of the teacher aides this morning told me that she had the same problem loading msn.com on her PC at home last night.
So does anybody know if msn.com has been having technical problems since yesterday evening?
Perhaps our friends at MSN were fiddling around with the site again - the site at Hotmail seems different (unless they mucked around and screwed up the style sheets again).
I read a message in the help screen that MSN was doing “routine maintenance” on their system and listed about 30 cities that will be affected.Probably Anaheim’s one.
Duckster, actually, when the facility’s computers are blocked from accessing a site, there’s a page generated from Websensespecifically telling us so, and also telling us either for how long (permanently, as likely as not), or why. The error message we were getting looks more like this.
Well, the facility is taking a spring break until the 28th of April, so I guess we’ll find out when we return if the default browser setting is working again or not.
), because it’s easy enough to type a URL into the address line and get to a site that DOES work. But it’s evidently not limited to the computers at this facility; one of the teacher aides this morning told me that she had the same problem loading msn.com on her PC at home last night.