Myspace DNS Problems, Offline

Posted in Google, Uptime by Elliott Back on October 31st, 2006.

Check out what I get when I ask where Myspace is:

nslookup myspace.com

Name: myspace.com
Addresses: 216.178.32.49, 216.178.32.50, 216.178.32.51, 127.0.0.1, 216.178.32.48

That’s right–the loopback address, essentially me, resolves to Myspace. They’ve clearly misconfigured their DNS, and are now dropping 1/5 of their global traffic. Smart one, News Corp. It’s not a great idea when you buy a company to make a public, stupid mistake. For more, see the opendns blog.

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4 Responses to “Myspace DNS Problems, Offline”

Michael Morisy says:

10/31/2006 at 10:44 pm

But News Corp., not Google, owns myspace.

-Michael

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Fred says:

11/1/2006 at 12:29 am

Yeah, you seem to be getting things mixed up with youtube. AFAIK, myspace is still in Rupert Murdoch’s hands.

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Elliott Back says:

11/1/2006 at 12:34 am

Yes, I was tired when I wrote that–I’ve fixed!

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There’s no place like 127.0.0.1 at fredericiana says:

1/28/2007 at 5:35 pm

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