hosts file solution works!

Thanks, Brian!

I was receiving the same error message everyone else here
has:

Library download error. Will retry. (Error 0x80072EE7)

I added the entry to the hosts file as Brian suggested,
closed the browser and restarted. Then went to
download.windowsupdate.com as suggested. It works with no
problems!


>-----Original Message-----
>It seems that many of the DNS servers in the world are
>pointing to an old IP address for Microsoft.
>
>In an earlier post I founs a suggestion from someone
that
>suggested addin an entry in your hosts file.
>
>The easiest way to find this file is do a find / search
>for hosts . The file in question has no
extension.
>It is only hosts.
>
>Open the file with notepad and add a line at the bottom
as
>such (copy past will work)
>
>208.172.158.234 download.windowsupdate.com
>
>
>Then close and reopen your internet browser (all of
them)
>and then type the above address,
>(download.windowsupdate.com) on the address line. It
will
>take you to a windows update site just like always. But
>for some reason from here, the downloads work. From the
>site you reach by clicking on the windows update
shortcut
>in IE, it doesn't.
>
>Hope this helps. I have downloaded about 20 updates
this
>way so far.
>
>I am guessing that eventually this will get fixed and
you
>can take the entry out of the hosts file.
>
>Brian
>.
>