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Re: Name server problems? or did Microsoft forget to pay their billagain?
From: "ken harris." <ken () boii com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:51:28 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
The database that includes this information is called a DNS Table. On Saturday, MyDomain.com accidentally released a DNS table to the world that was full of errors, Lau said. The mistakes meant a small fraction of Web surfers trying to visit Yahoo.com were instead sent to an IP address inside MyDomains.com. Reminds me of Eugene Kashpureff...
hardly. the issue with mydomain.com is that certain *nix's have it listed in /etc/resolv.conf (or the specific equivalent) as an example although it's commented out. your joe-intelligent administrator apparently decided to uncomment it. to my knowledge, mydomain.com didn't do anything illegal, where as eugene decided to get zerocool. actually, i find it slightly funny. -ken harris toronto, canada
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