Your MSN buddy list is temporarily unavailable???

silentmatt · Post by **silentmatt** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:16 pm

I'm at school now..... and just tried logging in with Miranda (off my USB key) and MSN Messenger 7.0 (off the local harddrive).

Both give errors and are unable to logon. I don't see how the contact list data got corruped but it certianly seems like that is the problem.

Has anyone figured a way around this? There doesn't seem to be any official Microsoft info on this.... and that SUCKS. I kind of rely on MSN Messenger for communication in a lot of instances.....

EDIT: I have filed a support ticket with Microsoft. We'll see what they have to say.

Post by **evands** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:14 pm

silentmatt wrote:EDIT: I have filed a support ticket with Microsoft. We'll see what they have to say.

Keep us posted. From all indications, it is indeed a problem serverside.. though it might be a "feature" serverside which is causing problems for certain clients.

schuey100 · Post by **schuey100** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:56 am

Well mine is working again now! Anyone else?

pengu · Post by **pengu** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:01 am

yup. sure enough, mine is working again

silentmatt · Post by **silentmatt** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:07 am

haha, just checked my home connection via VNC and, yup, looks like everything is working again.

i guess all i had to do was file the ticket and BAM, problem abates before their tech support gets to look.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:10 am

I got this problem with Microsoft Messenger for Mac and decided to switch to Adium to see if it was a client problem. Adium also had errors.

Today, I have access to a PC and can log in with Windows Live Messenger no problem.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:39 am

silentmatt wrote:"Network Status: The network services are available; there are no known network issues at this time."

I don't think they ever change that site

Simplicity · Post by **Simplicity** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:00 am

working now... good job on opening that ticket

and yeah, I don't think that network status page has ever changed. ever.

pengu · Post by **pengu** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:11 am

someone told me that all MSN accounts are on one of two servers, which is why when something goes wrong (with one of them) its so catastrophic to MSN users... stoopid microsoft. never heard of fail-over or clustering, clearly...

Post by **evands** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:12 am

Simplicity wrote:and yeah, I don't think that network status page has ever changed. ever.

It did, once...

...when the network status server went down.

m2e · Post by **m2e** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:36 am

evands wrote:
Simplicity wrote:and yeah, I don't think that network status page has ever changed. ever.
It did, once...

...when the network status server went down.

heh

anyway this link might be of interest: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/10/03/messenge ... -problems/

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:53 am

I was just coming here to post that link.

It seems that I can now sign in with Microsoft Messenger for Mac and with Adium.

I don't know if Microsoft pulled their thumbs out or if signing in with WLM helped, but I'm back on the Microsoft/MSN/.NET/Windows/Windows Live Messenger network.