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Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet

networkworld.com — Almost a million Web sites in Sweden were invisible to the rest of the Internet last night because someone forgot to use a .

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 14, 2009

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  • ubernoggin, on 10/13/2009, -2/+67It's as if millions of Swedish porn surfers suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
  • michaelpinto, on 10/14/2009, -3/+49At last I have revenge for the countless hours I've wasted putting together Ikea furniture only to find that one part missing...
  • inactive, on 10/14/2009, -3/+28I accidentally the whole .
  • ChromaVita, on 10/14/2009, -0/+24Hey guy's I found it, it's over here!
  • DMDekoth, on 10/14/2009, -0/+22God damnit I heard him in my head.

    ***** you!
  • Tarkaan, on 10/14/2009, -1/+20I don't want to hear any more jokes about menstruation. Period.
  • ChromaVita, on 10/14/2009, -3/+20MEESA SORRAY! I FORGET ONE SRILLY LITTLE DOT AND DA HOOOLE INTERNET GOESA BOOM! EXSQUEEEEZE ME!

    /rage
  • dienamite, on 10/14/2009, -4/+20.
  • Spawn2105, on 10/14/2009, -0/+16i ***** hate Jar Jar Binks
  • dtele, on 10/14/2009, -1/+16I fear something Swedish has happened.
  • forevernomad, on 10/14/2009, -0/+11FTA: "Thanks to well-functioning surveillance system .SE discovered the error immediately and a new file with the DNS data (zone file) was produced and distributed within one hour"

    Not really that well functioning, it only noticed something was wrong when it couldn't find what it was supposed to be surveying.
  • DMDekoth, on 10/14/2009, -0/+8"What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
  • earthtoandy, on 10/14/2009, -2/+10I don't have a strong opinion on this one way or the other.
  • shutaro, on 10/13/2009, -4/+11Take that, Sweden!
  • odiroot, on 10/14/2009, -0/+6You say dot, they say bork.
  • gizram84, on 10/14/2009, -0/+5If I die, tell my wife, "Hello".
  • forcedfx, on 10/14/2009, -0/+5And it took an hour to correct it.
  • ryanand80, on 10/14/2009, -0/+5because someone forgot to use a.... condom?
  • moskrin, on 10/14/2009, -0/+4Who *hasn't* screwed up a zone file by a single character? This one just happened to be a particularly important zone file...
  • earthtoandy, on 10/14/2009, -1/+5I found the technical manual they used to set this up. No wonder it didn't work out, I cant make heads or tails of it... http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/customer_service/asse ... (PDF warning)
  • undervalued, on 10/14/2009, -0/+4Don't even have to nuke countries out of existence now, just forget the dot and they disappear.
  • MrSteamTank, on 10/14/2009, -1/+4Those Swedish had it coming if you ask me.
  • rustybones, on 10/14/2009, -0/+2How very lagom of you.
  • earthtoandy, on 10/14/2009, -0/+2You win again, gravity!
  • Culyt, on 10/14/2009, -0/+1Ahhh, the most classic of all Bind mistakes.

    http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/we ...
  • agentsrecord, on 10/14/2009, -0/+1Case closed. I found out what happened to it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo
  • drivingalone, on 10/14/2009, -1/+2And boom goes the dienamite.
  • turnpoint, on 11/20/2009, -0/+1Homer is right when it comes to Sweden :-)
  • gizram84, on 10/14/2009, -1/+216 year olds in their parents basement won't understand a joke like that.
  • acegi, on 10/14/2009, -2/+3http://goat.se
  • sapphirecut, on 10/30/2009, -0/+1Hil.ario.us ! (ok that was a lame joke)
  • anonymousmedic, on 10/14/2009, -1/+2"And nothing of value was lost." - Homer J Simpson, et all.
  • Data33, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1Actually, we say "punkt".
  • JumboJ3t, on 10/14/2009, -0/+1Oh, Zap.
  • Kashey, on 10/14/2009, -0/+1Hmm don't know. All I got is an ad about hi speed internet. Looks like Sweden is really down.
  • Pjotrovich, on 10/15/2009, -0/+1damn those demicals..
  • antdude, on 10/14/2009, -0/+1dienamite?
  • ChrisStigson, on 10/14/2009, -1/+1This is pretty funny, how it happened. Because if you are running any types of websites, you would see them all go down... I did and it was not pretty! Stupid thing =)
  • bigdnl, on 10/14/2009, -1/+1"I always forget to put a demical in there, or miss something" - Office Space
  • andoru, on 10/14/2009, -4/+1They must have accidently a dot out.
  • FlaNative, on 10/14/2009, -9/+2I know lots of girls who drop off the internet for the same reason.

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