Does anyone know what happened to MSN?

[CreamyLady]

I'll admit it; I've got a major Alchemy habit, and I haven't been able to play all day.

I'm at the twitching stage. I need my Alchemy.

 

[Ezzy]

They have problems today...

With some of their DNS servers, they are working on it but it will take a while to get sorted.




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[HSWriter]

Problems occur.. Lit. has some problems sometimes... its all good in the end...

 

[CreamyLady]

Thank you.

 

[Never]

Alchemy habit?
So do I but I've only been able to turn bronze to silver so far though, ho hum, I'm just no good at it.

 

[Ezzy]

I have an Ymehcla down pat...

Alchemy habit?
So do I but I've only been able to turn bronze to silver so far though, ho hum, I'm just no good at it.

I can turn Gold into Lead any day, it is doing it the other way round I have trouble.




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[Never]

Have you ever tried doing the exact opposite of whatever you do to turn gold into lead?

 

[Ezzy]

Yup...

Have you ever tried doing the exact opposite of whatever you do to turn gold into lead?

I have, but then all I end up with is sand, it is most confusing.




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[SweetCherry]

Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that most of its online properties became unreachable Wednesday morning because of a problem in the system that maps Web addresses to Internet protocol addresses.


Sites that were affected include the Web-based e-mail service Hotmail.com, the Web portal MSN.com, the news Web site MSNBC.com and the company's corporate site Microsoft.com.


"The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) does not return the correct response when it is queried for a Microsoft Web site," said Ruud de Jonge, support manager at Microsoft Benelux.


The first reports of the problem started coming in "very early" Wednesday morning, said De Jonge. "It will take some time; this can't be restored by hitting one switch," he said.


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 with worldwide replicas."


A team at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., is working on the problem, which has been given top priority, said De Jonge.


Because of the blackout, some 60 million Hotmail users worldwide could not access their e-mail, Microsoft customers could not download software updates or get online support, and MSNBC.com had no audience. Other services that couldn't be reached include Windowsupdate.com, which contains updates for the Windows operating system, Passport.com, Microsoft's online identification service, and bCentral.com, a portal for small and medium-sized businesses.


Hackers could be responsible for the outage that continued for hours, said Simon Hania, spokesman for Dutch Internet service provider XS4ALL Internet. "The name server that is authoritative for Microsoft's Web sites might have crippled under a denial-of-service attack," he said.


Hania said, however, that it is more likely that a network error or system failure caused the problem.


The DNS consists of many machines around the world that are set up in a hierarchy. "It looks like the machine hit is in the top of the DNS tree," Hania said. "Once it is fixed it can take a couple of hours for all DNS systems around the world to pick up the correct DNS information."

 

[jcgirl]

I can turn cookies into crumbs just like that!

 

[Merelan]

Hey, save some of those cookies for me!