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Re: Name server problems? or did Microsoft forget to pay their
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Jan 24 06:50:49 2001
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:52:03 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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Sean;
Sounds like it was corruption of the DNS table :
http://www.msnbc.com/news/519306.asp
from the article
The database that includes this information is called a DNS Table. On
Saturday, MyDomain.com accidentally released a DNS table to the world
that was full of errors, Lau said. The mistakes meant a small fraction of
Web surfers trying to visit Yahoo.com were instead sent to an IP address
inside MyDomains.com.
In addition to misdirecting
Yahoo.com and Microsoft.com
visitors, surfers trying to reach
MSN.com and a host of .net
sites also ended up at
MyDomains.com. In about a
four-hour period Saturday, some
50,000 new clicks were
registered on the MyDomains
page, and the number was still
rising at 5 a.m. ET.
Reminds me of Eugene Kashpureff...
Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> It seems like a number of Microsoft related web sites have vanished.
>
> www.msnbc.com
> www.microsoft.com
>
> I've tried from both AT&T and Earthlink, and can't reach them.
>
> The name servers don't seem to be returning valid answers. If they
> are in your cache, it works. But after clearing the cache, nada.
>
> I noticed name server problems earlier this evening. Is this spreading?
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Regards
Marshall Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609
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