Maybe someone knows whats happening here. I noticed yesterday that I cannot reach any pages on microsoft's website. Trying to run the windows updates and I get a 504 Gateway timeout error.
Anything that starts with
www.microsoft.com is the same. Any other web page is fine.
I am not behind a router or firewall of any kind. I was not running any virus software either.
Originally I thought it might have been some sort of virus or something so I just installed Nortan anti-virus 2003 and ran it. No viruses. Downloaded Ad-aware and S&D and ran them for spyware. Found a bunch and removed them but still can't reach the site.
I do run the goodle toolbar (for the pop-up blocker mostly) so I disabled the pop-upo blocker feature temporarily. And bam I was able to reach www.microsoft.com! Odd but who cares I thought.
BUT, 5 mins later, the site would not come up anymore (even with the pop-up blocker disabled). So I uninstalled the toolbar... Still does't work.
Pinging the site times out with the ip resolving as 207.46.245.92
On my laptop (which works fine) it resolves as 207.46.250.222
Ok, getting somewhere here. I put in the 207.46.250.222 address in IE and boom I get to microsoft's website.
So why is it resolving diffrently on my PC? Both are plugged into the same connection so the DNS is the same.
Checked my hosts file and thats empty.
Any ideas?