No-IP Domain System Users Return Online After Microsoft Takedown
Found on eWEEK on Tuesday, 08 July 2014
Microsoft aimed to filter out malicious traffic and allow legitimate users to access their systems through the dynamics DNS service. Instead, a technical glitch on Microsoft's part resulted in millions of users being disconnected from their systems, according to No-IP.
"We would like to give you an update and announce that ALL of the 23 domains that were seized by Microsoft on June 30 are now back in our control," the firm stated in a blog post. "Please realize that it may take up to 24 hours for the DNS to fully propagate, but everything should be fully functioning within the next day."
MS could have at least said what was the problem. Otherwise people think that a Windows DNS server isn't capable of handling DNS requests efficiently (which it probably isn't anyway).