We could not complete your iTunes Store request. The network connection could not be established.

I too am experiencing the very same and am comforted to know I am not alone. I'm getting consecutive error messages on my iMac, OS X 10.8.3.

First

We could not complete your iTunes Store request.

An unknown error occurred (-50)

There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later.

Then

We could not complete your iTunes Store request.

The network connection could not be established.

There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later.

I cleared my iTunes cache, then logged out and can no longer log in.

Unfortunately, I did the software upgrade on my Ipod and my Ipad and up until then everything worked just fine. I've tried all the suggestions posted and nothing fixes it. Any other ideas out there? I'm going to guess that there's a bug in the upgrade? Everything worked just fine before on the devices, and oddly now, I can't even access from the PC... Not impressed.

yep same here on an iMac running Snow Leopard and latest iTunes...

parental toggle did nothing to help

seems to have started immediately after the Java and Safari updates for 10.6.8 this morning...

Someone broke something for sure.

Same here and i've got no extra blocks runniing other than the Apple firewall

"we could not compete your itunes store request." "an unkonwn error occured (4002)" "there was an error in the itunes store"

To solve this proplem follow me

first

open iTunes

1 - login to the store ( here don't switch iphone or whatever to computer )

2 - after login

3 - Now switch ur iphone or whatever apple dvice u have

4 - no login to store in backup

Thsnks

Karim3liy -> from YEMEN

Same error here. Can't purchase from either of my Macs tonight. Been trying for about 2 hours. Parental Controls toggle didn't work for me.

I can ping itunes.apple.com and ax.apple.com

I can not ping alber.apple.com gs.apple.com or phobos.apple.com

Can anybody else? This may be a false trail.

I don't know how you figured this out, but this worked immediately for me after days of getting this error message and thinking the iTunes store was down. When I was able to get to the store on another computer, I knew something was up with this one, and googled the error message. This was one of the first things that showed up -- thanks!

same problem. got my phone replaced today and getting this message

same problem i got

Ditto...what's going on?

Same error here

I also have this exact issue.

I just updated to 11.02.26 and had same thing happen before and after.

I do have the same issue for the past 4 hours. Please reply to this post if you do get a way to solve the issue.

I am getting the same message...clearly something is going on with iTunes.