Microsoft DNS back up.

[Declan McCullagh]

Yep, it's back up for me too. I noticed it at 7:33 pm ET.

I'm on the phone with MS right now getting the, sigh, runaround.

-Declan


At 04:47 PM 1/24/01 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>Declan - Microsoft's DNS is back up; the article in
>The Register  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16340.html
>says their problems were due to DNS issues, not security
>or denial of service attacks.
>
>Previous story about it being down
>         http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16321.html
>
>There's much discussion on Slashdot,
>         http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/24/1455247&mode=thread
>but not much of it's useful :-)
>
>With Microsoft trying last year to push the term
>"Digital Nervous System" to usurp the acronym DNS,
>in spite of it being the third or fourth most important
>aspect of the Internet (and one of the most controversial),
>having a Digital Nervous Breakdown seems like poetic justice.
>
>
>                                 Thanks!
>                                         Bill
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