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Microsoft Australia Blames ISP for Domain Failure

Munir Kotadia writes on ZDNet Australia:

Microsoft is denying its Australian domain is suffering a DDoS attack and has instead pointed the finger at its ISP after suffering around 24 hours of downtime on the microsoft.com.au domain.

Microsoft.com.au usually redirects to microsoft.com/australia but for at least 18 hours, possibly longer, the redirect has not been functioning. Instead, visitors to Microsoft's Australian domain are kept waiting till their system times out and delivers an error message.

A spokesperson for Microsoft Australia said the ISP -- which they chose not to name -- was to blame for the downtime.

posted by Fergie @ 3/12/2007 05:57:00 PM