Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> writes:

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."

Saying that it was the fault of anybody besides Microsoft is simply not correct...a Perl script I use for diagnosing DNS problems reported last night one root-server down (c), one gtld server (j) down, and all but one of Microsoft's DNS servers down. Asking a.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking b.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking c.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'c.root-servers.net': query timed out Asking d.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking e.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking f.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking g.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking h.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking i.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking j.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking k.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking l.root-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking dns4.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'dns4.cp.msft.net': query timed out Asking dns5.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'dns5.cp.msft.net': query timed out Asking dns7.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'dns7.cp.msft.net': query timed out Asking dns6.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com Asking e.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking f.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking j.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'j.gtld-servers.net': query timed out Asking k.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking a.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking m.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking g.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking c.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking i.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking b.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com Asking d.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com 1 hosts [ 101/ 101 paths = 100.00% chance ] (dns6.cp.msft.net) reported: Sample path: a.root-servers.net -> dns6.cp.msft.net www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.179.134 www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.179.143 www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.179.71 www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.185.138 www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.185.140 www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.209.218 www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.209.243 ------ScottG.