Sup, guys.
I have been having a problem that could or could not be related to this one, so i guess i could also come here and share my knowledge to you, slobs normies.
Well, my problem was that I couldnt access login.live in my computer. Login.live is the authentication service of Microsoft, so i was basically locked out of my (paid) services like hotmail and onedrive.
I thought this would be just temporary thing, but it had been happening for 2 weeks already.
And it was only at home. I could access normally when using my cellphone and my work notebook with VPN.
Then i did more couple of tests to understand the problem because it was happening for too long and it started to bother me.
First thing was isolating the problem: where was the problem? The characteristic pointed something “local” as it just happened at my computer and not my cellphone or work notebook.
So, tried to access site from my ipad and…. Could not access it. Not the same error message but faulty regardless. So, the problem wasnt my hardware, but my internet environment.
That environment has two components: the ISP and my router. If it was an ISP, my option were limited. So my next step was checking the router. My hypothesis was the the router could be caching DNS, thus never resolving my requests to login.live (side note, i knew it was DNS issue because windows had the error message “dns_probe_error”).
So i just tried to restart the router. Yeah, maybe this was a really quick and dirty testing, maybe incomplete, but it didnt change the issue so at least i understood that i shouldnt trust DNS as it was, because someone had it faulty.
So, my next step was checking my options to change it. Both my ipad and personal notebook had DNS Server as “automatic”, meaning it just trusted the DNS from ISP, so i changed both to resolve to google (8.8.8.8) and…. Worked!
I just quickly reviewed some answer on internet trying to explain the problem. Probably something related to DHCP when your ISP router connect to ISP server that could be generating some dirty in the configuration. If its something like DHCP, it should work with temporary IP being lent to you, and to fix it, either see how to manually renew the IP or just let it expire, but as noticed, this could take a long time.
TL,DR: try setting your DNS Server to Google. Below, a video how to do that.
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