Mac unable to access www.hotmail.com and msn/adium but windows is able

Mercury Messenger and Adium are working for me now, but MSN Messenger for Mac and Proteus still aren't. Still can't access www.hotmail.com

What a weird issue this is.

Adium doesn't work anymore this morning. This seems to be quite unstable.
Anybody can provide the mail of technical assistance microsoft?

Exact same issue here. No Adium login, no messenger: mac login, no hotmail.com. I get the same "The page is unavailable or no longer exists" error on hotmail.com.

Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail.com work through Parallels however.

Funny thing is, our other MacBook also running 10.5.3 has no issues logging in at all.

Very confusing...

I'm having the exact same problem here!! 2 days ago adium and hotmail didn't work, exact the same errors as you guys and yesterday work quite well, but I wasn't able to see my hotmail account, and todyay in the morning adium did not start... and i can't get in the hotmail page :

The page is unavailable or no longer exists

The page you're trying to find is either temporarily unavailable or no longer exists.

Please do one of the following:

Click your browser's Refresh button to try reconnecting to the page.
Check the spelling of the web address in your browser's address bar.
Click your browser's Back button to go back to the previous page.


WHat is wrong with this thing!!!

I am having exactly the same problem here, its doing my bean in.

Used aMSN since last year no problems, then 3d ago aMSN has an "error conncecting to the server", hotmail apparently no longer exists, though absolutely no problems connecting to my msn or hotmail on a PC. Any one got any luck with this yet?

I have same problem : 'This Page Does Not Exist' when trying to login into Hotmail. Adium's been down too.

But get this, this happens on my wireless MacBook in my office, but I'm able to get Hotmail with iBook in living room hardwired to same router.

I've done nothing to Macbook (installs, etc.). It just happened suddenly Tuesday morning.


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Hi Guys, I'm still having the same bug.
I think we should wait a bit.
I have 3 macs but only my MacBook Pro has this bug fix.
On the iMac (which runs the same vs. operating system - 10.5.3) hotmail works well and also on my iBook (which runs tiger).
I'll wait an answer for all of us.
Bye

Hi

Maybe you've edited your hosts file in the past, and now those references to dns services does not work anymore.

try editing your /etc/hosts removing the last, bad entries.

something that sounds like "messenger.live...."

just to compare, here is my hosts file, working perfectly with every live services, msn account on adium included.

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

do not copy&past this on your terminal, just edit yours 'till it sounds like that one.

command line is: sudo nano /etc/hosts

then, crtl+x quits the application and pressing Y save changes: instructions are on the baseline of the console terminal.

if you are afraid of using terminal and don't feel safe about this, you can make a healty back-up of the hosts file you're going to edit.

just type:

sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts_backup

that will create a copy of your hosts file named hosts_backup

if you'd like to restore your edited file, after applying & saving changes on it, just type:

sudo rm -f /etc/hosts

that will remove (-f is a tag that ensures that the file is forced to be removed even if it's not safe to) the file you've edited.

than,

sudo mv /etc/hosts_backup /etc/hosts

will restore your old hosts file to one that can operate in your system.

I sincerely hope you'll get it done.

My girlfriend has this trouble too, and tomorrow morning I'm going to fix it that way: I'm quite sure it will work.

I'm truly sorry for my probably bad english 😉

Bye everyone.

Message was edited by: Mailor

Just tried editing my hosts file as suggested by Mailor above, and problem solved!

I remember having to edit my hosts file to get Adium to login when Leopard was released, as there was an issue with the version of Adium that was out at the time of the Leopard launch. I had added entries for login.live.com along with several others relating to passport.com and hotmail.com

What I'm assuming had happened in my case is that the IP address that my hosts file was resolving for login.live.com was no longer correct. Microsoft must have in the last few days changed the IP of login.live.com which would explain the sudden rush of people with this issue in the last 3 or 4 days.

Hopefully this works for the rest of you.

I'd rather say "to **** with Hotmail AND MSN" than to go through all that trouble.

Thanks though. It's appreciated.


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That worked perfectly for my gilrfriend too.

dzp111, that's not microsoft fault: resolving domain names is much a matter of updating informations, and the hosts file has no capability on that.

Although, I don't understand if you still have the problem or if you solved it.

Great!
With the changes at /etc/hosts now I can login to hotmail!!

(I had to change also the /etc/hosts.bak file)

Thank you very much!

Now it's ok.
I just don't get why it has changed so abruptly. Maybe msn has changed some IP?
And if so, why this problem affects only some users?

Ciao and thank you so much,

F.

/etc/hosts is a file to which the system refers to resolve web addresses.

there are two ways for your system to display you the webpage you're asking for:

1) it asks a DNS (resolv.conf) to resolve the name for it
2) it does it himself, looking for some useful record in hosts

if it finds instructions written in this file, it applies them.

That's what makes the difference between a system that could display hotmail's login page and one that didn't: the latter was trying to contact a site recorded to be on a host that does not exist anymore, due to its hosts file configuration, the other not.

thanks so much for that, hotmail now working..
i think its silly things like this can happen and nothing was done about it by Apple or Micro$oft but anyways..
Cheers