Might I suggest that the Microsoft DNS server software has something to do with this problem ;) On 24 Jan 2001, 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. | | | | | | | --- Rev. Chris Cappuccio -=- http://www.dqc.org/~chris/ "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you" - Ralph Nader