login.microsoftonline is broken - azure

i am using azure webapp with microsoft auth.
has been working fine for months.
however today it is broken.
the login.microsoftonline.com page is failing with css and js loading errors.
ie Request URL:https://secure.aadcdn.microsoftonline-p.com/ests/2.1.7415.7/content/cdnbundles/watsonsupport.min.js
is failing with a
SSL_PROTOCOL _ERROR
i tried raising with azure support but i cant login into the azure portal as it also uses login.microsoft.com page.
anyone able to help?
-lp

I have found a solution to my version of this problem. I am in Australia, my ISP is Telstra and I have a NBN connection. I do not have a proxy server.
I found changing the DNS servers from the Telstra default servers (61.9.194.49 & 61.9.195.193) to Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4) fixes the problem. If the DNS servers are changed back, the problem reappears. Changing the DNS back to Telstra reintroduces the problem. Changing them back fixes the problem. (You must flush the cache each change).
Hope this helps - but can only speculate as to why. Microsoft have accepted this as the solution to my problem and closed the support case.
The problem no longer exists when using the Telstra default DNS.
I suppose the take-home message is to remember your ISP sometimes caches stuff, mostly a good thing, but on the rare occasion causes problems.

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I've been struggling with a problem now for a few hour and I cannot find any answers or anyone with the same problem -
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I am not allowed to answer my own question and it was suggested that I edit the question to include my answer so here goes:
Firstly, thanks for all the responses.
I disabled the "ACL" module (http://drupal.org/project/acl) and the problem was solved. It was previously used for our forum which was also disabled a few months back, so it's not needed any more.
I still have no idea why this module caused the site to work locally but not on the server. I will be in contact with the server admins to find out if they changed/updated anything on the server which may have caused this module to cause a malfunction.
Any insight could still be helpful top prevent this from happening again.
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Compare your hosting configs:
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