ah yes, kinda like in daze past when netscape had issued, and people would call in saying the net is down cuz home.netscape.com didn't work.. Bri On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, David Lesher wrote:
Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be interesting to see some numbers....
As one press report mentioned, Billy ships his sw to default to hitting their site at startup...so that when you break that, lots-a-users are stalled dead..
Wonder if that's a factor...
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