After I upgraded from Lubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 I have had problems using my hotmail account. It has worked sometimes, but now it is almost impossible to connect. The browser reports 'server not found'.
I googled extensively and found a whole load of issues relating to Firefox - resolved by clearing cookies, changing dns and ipv6 config etc, etc...
After diabling DNS prefetch and ipv6 in Firefox configuration, hotmail started working immediately. Hooray ! Only to pack in again after a few days.
I gave up on Firefox and installed Chrome. No change ! I tried another machine with Lubuntu 16.04 - exactly the same, I cannot open hotmail.
Conclusion: This is nothing to do with the browser. It is Lubuntu 16.04 that is giving the problem.
Finally I found an article that suggested adding 8.8.8.8 as an additional DNS server in preferences | network connections | wifi | ipv4 Settings. That fixed the problem !
What did I do and why did I need to do it ?
Why did hotmail work sporadically at the beginning, and again after the change in Firefox settings ?
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