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Hotmail Issues Through NT4/MS Proxy

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by spirit

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We are running a NT4 domain, servers at SP6a. I have MS Proxy 2 on one of them for Internet.
Recently, we have been having an intermittent problem with Hotmail not being available. We get a 11001 Host not found message. Sometimes re-booting the Proxy server seems to resolve it, sometimes it does not.
My thought is that Hotmail tries different ports, and this is like a busy signal when it happens to select a port that Proxy has closed.
Does this sound reasonable, and does anyone have a reliable workaround? I cannot easily block Hotmail and make all users use something different. By the way, we have no problems with Yahoo, Excite, or other web-based e-mails.

Dave

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by an_it_guy

Check your DNS settings. On your proxy Server, do you have two nic? If so, on the nic connecting to internet. check the DNS entries, make sure it does not include your internal DNS.
Likewise, on your LAN nic, remove the gateway entry if you have any. And remove any external DNS entries if any on that nic.
See if this helps.

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