Problem with Microsoft Website

[Fleet Command CC]

Has anyone else had problem getting on to Microsoft Website? I have try lots of times today, but I just can't get the site to load. :confused::(:mad:

Any ideas.

[William Miller]

Microsofts main site came up just fine for me today.:

http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx

[Fleet Command CC]

Thank's for the reply William Miller. :D

I still can't get it to load I dono why. :confused::confused:

I can't load some other sites has well, might it be something to do with my ISP?

[William Miller]

Hello,

Sounds like your IPs' DNS lookup server may be having temporary issues -- when that occurs an IP can "miss" some websites because they cannot translate to-and-from domain names and IP addresses.

Below is a good intro into DNS and the important role it plays for the internet:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm

[Fleet Command CC]

Thanks for you info William Miller, very handy info. In your opinion should I wait a few days before I phone my ISP? :)

[William Miller]

If you continued to have a number of major (like Microsoft) sites not showing up over a 48 hour period I would contact your IP, or at least check your IPs home page for any outage announcement -- a disruption of this sort should not last longer than that unless you have a really horrid internet provider, or there is some major blip in the WWW (which to my knowledge is not the case at present).

[Fleet Command CC]

My ISP is AOL and it isn't has good has it was when I first signed up with them. :(

Thank you for the help William. ;)

It seen to be ok now, after playing around with it for a bit. :)