[Pera123]

Hello,

When i try connect to the iTunes store it issues an error message "iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. Make sure your network connection is active and try again". I saw a lot of other people have the same problem as i was trying to solve mine looking through forums. Mainly to everybody the problem is about a firewall, but that is not the case with me. I found that Apple have issued a solution, i renamed the hosts file in the system32 folder, but it worked only for one day and I still couldn't download any podcasts, i could only access the store. I would appreciate if someone could help me about this.

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I see that there is no solution to this problem, actually, my problems appears occasionally now, i can access the store from time to time. But i still cannot download any podcasts. When the download start it states an error -3259. I saw that this is also a common problem. Hopefully someone, or Apple themselves, will issue a solution in the near future. If anyone could help, PLEASE post something.

[Pera123]

I see that there is no solution to this problem, actually, my problems appears occasionally now, i can access the store from time to time. But i still cannot download any podcasts. When the download start it states an error -3259. I saw that this is also a common problem. Hopefully someone, or Apple themselves, will issue a solution in the near future. If anyone could help, PLEASE post something.

[RhinebeckDude]

I've lived thru this off and on again,,,and the various options never helped. Flushdns, disablign the Firewall, etc. Until, I noticed that the Diagnostics output indicated that I had a proxy for my HTTPS setting using Internet Explorer. Since I almost never use IE I found this strange. When I started IE and checked the LAN connections it showed I had selected this proxy. When I deselected it, iTunes kicked back into business.

So, pay attn to the output from the iTunes Diagnostics. You may have a proxy enabled (perhaps for your corp intranet) that is unknowingly preventing iTunes from connecting.