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Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamie rishaw)
Wed Jan 24 16:11:09 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:08:13 -0500
From: jamie rishaw <jamie@arpa.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Haha.
The last line of the press release reads:
"Microsoft, in Redmond, Washington, can be reached at at http://www.microsoft.com/."
They need more keen reporters :)
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:40:15AM -0800, 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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