RE: [nznog] search.msn.co.nz

At 21:16 10/03/03 +1100, Nathan Mercer wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 11:10 p.m. To: Nathan Mercer; Simon Byrnand; Craig Whitmore

Nathan Mercer wrote:

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Hi Guys

Thanks for the info, I passed it onto the MSN people offshore. Do you have any more information about how this error appears - are your customers clicking something in their browser, or linking off another website or something?

I can't seem to get the error here on my PC (but I'm running IE6)

$ dig search.msn.co.nz. a ;; ANSWER SECTION: search.msn.co.nz. 3600 IN CNAME search.msn.ca. search.msn.ca. 3600 IN A 207.68.185.57 search.msn.ca. 3600 IN A 207.68.176.254

Yeah, no idea why its in aliased to .ca The MSN admin guy who replied to me was from China, so go figure. It sounds like search.msn.co.nz isn't being used by MSN any longer, and they can't figure out why users are ending up there.

They can't figure it out ? The "Search" button in the latest version of Internet Explorer (and probably older versions too) takes you there when you use "Find a Web Page". It also happens if you try to search from the address bar. (EG enter something that isn't a URL) Maybe their webdesigners should keep in touch with the IE development team ? :p Perhaps the Microsoft people that are trying to test the problem aren't in an area that gets redirected to "search.msn.co.nz". I'm not sure what method it uses to determine if you're in NZ, perhaps not everyone in NZ is considered to be "in NZ" by IE, and thus doesn't get directed to the NZ version of that page... (But browsing directly to the URL as Craig first indicated should be visible anywhere I would have thought...) Regards, Simon