Designs by Devin

Today I woke up like so many other Windows XP users only to find that I had lost connectivity to the Internet... sorta.

I went through all the usual troubleshooting and finally decided that either the Internet was suffering from a Zero-day attack on DNS servers from Tuesday's DNS server vulnerability announcement or Microsoft had broken my computer with a Black Tuesday patch. When I brought up a VMWare instance of CentOS I realized that it was probably a combination of both. There were a few sites that I wasn't able to resolve their hostname; however, I happened to be able to creatively Google an article about the patches I applied to my machine last night that led me to believe that the latest patches from Microsoft had rendered ZoneAlarm personal firewall unable to pass port 80 and 443 traffic. I was still able to do trace routes but not name resolution. I downloaded the emergency patch from the fine folks at ZoneAlarm and now I'm back in business. Only 4 hours of billable time lost. Thanks, Microsoft! Where do I send the bill for the lost time?