[78721] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: passport.net strange timeout problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Oliver)
Tue Mar 22 03:45:09 2005
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:43:30 -0800
From: Andrew Oliver <andrewo@axon.net>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503212200330.26118@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Could this be relate to the fact that Microsoft nixed the Passport service
back in January?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/30/ms_ends_pass/
Andrew
:)
On 3/21/05 10:10 PM, "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net> wrote:
>
>
> I'm trying to investigate strange timeout problems with microsoft passport.
> The problem is that trying to get to any website that uses passport (tried
> hotmail.com, groups.yahoo.com) does not work and times out and going
> directly to passport.net causes redirect to login.passport.net where browser
> waits some time and then also times out (happens with both explorer and
> firefox).
>
> I would have considered it to be unique problems with particular install
> except that I have confirmed that it happens on multiple computers and I
> do not see any pattern either in subnet or in their config. I'm also
> unsure when this started as none of the computers are regularly used to
> access webistes that use passport.
>
> So if somebody ran into something like this before and knows of any
> network-related issue that could cause this, please let me know
> (possibly dns or specific filter could cause it?).
