I've never had a problem until the past 2-3 months when out of the blue I can not get well formed pages to load at msdn2.microsoft.com nor can I get past a page that loads a registration page for downloading Microsoft software. I have no problem on any other websites anywhere from any domain.
I've heard all kinds of assumptions suggesting local cache problems to my firewall. While I went through all the paces such assumptions seem bogus to me as the failures are consistent and unique to requests for pages from a specific subdomain (msdn2.microsoft.com) and a specific page elsewhere at microsoft.com (URL of page too long to post) and nowhere else. When did my firewall learn to discriminate?
A helpful guy finally responded stating he and others resolves similar problems by disabling dynamic DNS on the firewall (Netgear FVS318 ProSafe VPN) but the Road Runner ISP requires dynamic DNS to be selected on the router. Running ipconfig /all shows the same unroutable 192.168 IP Address being used noting I provided that 192.168 specific non-routable IP Address elsewhere in the router's configuration.
These failures to reach the noted web resources have been replicated on a friend's machine who has a different ISP. I have nowhere to turn and do not accept how my machines on my LAN and my firewall can be the problem.
Can anybody else confirm problems accessing pages at msdn2.microsoft.com? Its where the ASP.NET documentation is. If you care to try to do a Google search such as the following and then try to load several page(s) from msdn2 using the search results...
The request for a page can and will take up to 4 minutes and if a page is returned it will be all mangled.
//Google search... c# site:msdn2.microsoft.com
What the f8ck?