October 11, 04. The blackest day for microsoft. Msn down

quantum

Lol, I better post it before it disappears. Msn messenger service is being down for almost 12 hours or more. Noone can log into the messenger service. At the very moment I am writing this , if you go to http://messenger.msn.com/ you are redirected to [http://messenger.msn.com/Default.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/Default.aspx]

And there you will see this GRAND message. I doubt many people have seen this magical message from microsoft web pages before!

Quote:

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

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<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.



<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

Yeap, that's all that you would see if you were lucky enough to visit [http://messenger.msn.com] right now! I think, I can fairly guess that today, october 11, 2004 must be the blackest day in MSN and Microsoft's history.

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Last edited by quantum on Tue Oct 12, 04 8:12 am; edited 1 time in total

quantum

So how or why was MSN messenger murdered?

Speculation has it that there has been another vicious attack from the deadly nix hackers. But the most probable cause of death is perhaps, someone installed XP service pack 2 in their web server.

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hasnatme

Well I didn't get the error message.
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quantum

Uh, so they fixed it already! sigh. Can't keep them down for too long. They are like Hydra. You cut one of their heads, they grow two more. Sigh. JK.
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hasnatme

quantum wrote:

They are like Hydra. You cut one of their heads, they grow two more. Sigh. JK.

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dude

Quote:

Microsoft had been fairly tight-lipped about the problem until Friday around 11:30 a.m., when Bray issued a lengthy statement. He acknowledged that service interruptions had been ongoing for several days. He also admitted that "for a brief period of time yesterday, it was necessary for us to reboot and restore all of our MSN Messenger servers as part of our efforts to restore service to all customers."

Bray emphasized that the "issue which caused this service interruption has been identified." He described it as "an extremely rare set of circumstances that occurred when one of our database servers had a disk controller fail. The backup for this controller also had an error occur which resulted in a more lengthy path to full service recovery."

Microsoft estimated that about two-thirds of MSN Messenger customers currently have full access to the service but acknowledged that some people would continue to experience connection problems and lost buddy lists until the service is fully restored.

"We are in the process of restoring the backup data for the remaining customers who are still experiencing the service outage," Bray said.

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-269529.html?legacy=cnet