msn.com blocks non-Microsoft browsers

Thomas Mondoshawan Tate plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:27:34 -0700


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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:51:34PM -0700, cstranslations@msn.com wrote:
> Seems to be the case...
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098823,00.html?chkpt=3Dzdn=
np1tp
> 02
>=20
> There are a couple of people at work who have http://www.msn.com as their
> home page. For roughly 90 minutes this afternoon they were acutally
> connecting to http://www.freewebsites.com. There was a bit of a debate as=
 to
> whether it was a "goof" routing table somewhere or if someone had hacked
> MSN. Haven't seen anything in the news. Where they were getting redirected
> to has really gotta make me wonder...
>=20
> Joe

Sounds to me like bad DNS entries -- probably cache poisoning or something
similar.

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
http://tank.dyndns.org

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