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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: > > Microsoft appears to be blaming ICANN for the failure with Microft's > domain name servers (all located at the same place at Microsoft). > > 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." > > http://www.idg.net/ic_386962_1793_1-1681.html > > 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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