[33818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Wed Jan 24 16:02:47 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:04:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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Might I suggest that the Microsoft DNS server software has something to
do with this problem ;)
On 24 Jan 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
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| Microsoft appears to be blaming ICANN for the failure with Microft's
| domain name servers (all located at the same place at Microsoft).
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| Microsoft has yet to pin down the cause of the DNS error. "It can
| be a system or human error, but somebody could also have done this
| intentionally," De Jonge said. "We don't manage the DNS ourselves,
| it is a system controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned
| Names and Numbers (ICANN) with worldwide replicas."
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| http://www.idg.net/ic_386962_1793_1-1681.html
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| Microsoft gamers (users of www.zone.com) quickly came up with various
| workarounds so they could continue playing. They were posting HOSTS.TXT
| files on various gamer bulletin boards overnight. In particular
| "Asheron's Call" had several problems during the last week, including
| banning a number of users and rolling back experience points due to
| a game bug.
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