Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

[jamie rishaw <jamie () arpa com>]

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.