Anyone else have trouble getting into Hotmail today? I haven’t been able to check my email all day. 
Neil
Oh my God, it’s the Y2K larva!
I just tried mine - no problem with it.
Still can’t access mine.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge…others just gargle.
me neither! argh.
I can’t get in either
I’ve had problems with Hotmail ever since I signed up for it about three or four months ago. It won’t let me in for two weeks at a time sometimes.
I finally changed it into my Send Junk Mail Here drawer.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
No problem with it yesterday, today or ever - I guess I’m one of the lucky ones.
Hmmm. Probably flooded with all the people & their new computers logging in.
Anyone agree with that?
I’m going to venture a guess and say that some ISP’s name server is down. It’s the server that takes the URL that you type in and locates the correct server to connect to. This would explain why some people can get to it and some can’t because it would only affect the people who are using the ISP(s) with the downed server. Either that or some ISPs are blocking the hotmail website for some unknown reason.
Yay! it’s back up.
At work a while back, students suddenly couldn’t get to Hotmail through our Novell network, and our comms guys traced it to a change in the ‘port number’ that Hotmail was using. MSN hadn’t changed at the time, so it it worked for a while.
Most services (the Web, email, ftp, …) use more-or-less standard port numbers for transactions, and firewalls or other security software allow those through. Non-standard port numbers are often blocked.
Bob the Random Expert
“If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.”