I heard on the radio this morning that they were down again, and that it
was due to a DOS attack on their routers. The same DOS attack that
effected Yahoo and company over the summer.
So even after other big name companies were hit 6,7,8 months ago, MS still
didn't put the patch on their routers...a patch that's been availble for a
year now?
--rdp
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > LinuxToday.Com carried an article reporting it to be a DNS crack.
>
> I didn't look too closely, but it seemed like the LinuxToday.com article was
> a crock. They were doing a
>
> whois microsoft.com
>
> and pointing to the output as proof of a crack. (This is, of course, not how
> WHOIS works -- that simply searches for anything that *starts* with
> MICROSOFT.COM). You can do
>
> whois linux
>
> with similar effects.
>
>
--
Rich Payne
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