Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel The link to download Messenger for Mac is invalid. It shows the server nonexistent. Can you point me in the right direction to point it out.
On 8/19/08 7:45 PM, in article 59b574f7.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "WnderBred@officeformac.com" wrote: > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) > Processor: Intel > > The link to download Messenger for Mac is invalid. It shows the server > nonexistent. Can you point me in the right direction to point it out. Hi! Were you downloading it from the following site? http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx Since this is the second report of this issue in just over two hours, I double-checked the site myself. It seems to be working at the moment. It may be that you were downloading from the wrong site, or it's possible there was some temporary server downtime. Let me know if this helps :) --- Zack Moxley a-zamox@online.microsoft.com (remove ³online.² for any direct replies) Microsoft Corporation Macintosh Business Unit This posting is provided ³AS IS² with no warranties, and confers no rights.
The link still does not let me download. I do not believe that it is my computer.
WndrBred wrote: > The link still does not let me download. I do not believe that it is my computer. This has become a common problem lately in the past several months and is out of Microsoft's control. Your ISP's DNS servers, which resolve server names to IP addresses so that your machine can connect, have given your Mac some bad information. First, try clearing your computer's DNS cache. It's quick and causes no harm: 1. Open the Terminal application found in /Applications/Utilities. 2. Enter this command followed by a return: dscacheutil -flushcache (for Leopard) lookupd -flushcache (for Tiger) 3. Try your download again. Your machine should have to query your DNS servers again for an address. If the above doesn't work then your ISP's DNS servers are still causing you a problem. Look into using <http://www.opendns.org/> to substitute your ISP's DNS server addresses with this service's DNS servers. It's also very simple and will very probably allow you to download your updates. You may need to run the above Terminal command again after changing your DNS servers. You might also consider just using these new DNS server addresses permanently. See if your speed accessing websites improves and note whether or not you have fewer or more problems connecting to sites. For more information have a look at this blog post: "Unable to download updates" <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/07/unable_to_download_updates.html> -- bill Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/> Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/> YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk> Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>
