http://www.microsoft.com/info/siteaccess.htm

Microsoft Explains Site Access Issues

On Tuesday evening and Wednesday, many Microsoft
customers had difficulty accessing the company's Web
sites. The cause has been determined, and the issue is
resolved. 

At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician
made a configuration change to the routers on the edge
of Microsoft's Domain Name Server network. The DNS
servers are used to connect domain names with numeric
IP addresses (e.g. 207.46.230.219) of the various
servers and networks that make up Microsoft's Web
presence. 

The mistaken configuration change limited
communication between DNS servers on the Internet and
Microsoft's DNS servers. This limited communication
caused many of Microsoft's sites to be unreachable
(although they were actually still operational) to a
large number of customers throughout last night and
today. 

This was an operational error, and not the result of
any issue with Microsoft or third-party products nor
the security of our networks. Microsoft regrets any
inconvenience caused to customers due to this issue. 

At approximately 5 p.m. Wednesday (PST), Microsoft
removed the changes to the router configuration and
immediately saw a massive improvement in the DNS
network. 

All sites are currently available to customers. Again,
Microsoft apologizes for the inconvenience. 

--- Adam Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/24/microsoft.blackout.idg/index.ht
> ml
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/24/1455247.shtml
> 
> Adam Hickey
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CCNA CCNP (in progress)
> 
> > Oh that is just so funny!!!!
> > To bad I can't paste the whois in here lol

> > Allen May wrote:
> > >
> > > Quick!  do a whois no microsoft.com.  It's been
> hacked ;)

Huh? I looked it off and on yesterday and today and it
was correct.

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