Microsoft defaced... sort of

Well, you don't see that every day:



The working theory is that there's a new root name server in town, which has taken over the old IP address of the "L" root (story here).

And it's returning bad information for, among other sites, www.microsoft.com.

On Microsoft Tuesday.

Isn't that sweet?

You may want to remove any reference to the old-and-busted address of L on your network. If you're an end user, it looks like OpenDNS has done this for you.