Dean wrote:
All right, looks like I'm back in business. BTW, it seems like what some
calls news.Microsoft.com is listed as msnews.Microsoft.com. I assume they
are one in the same?

For /almost/ all practical purposes, yes.

In DNS,"news" is a CNAME record pointing to "msnews", the latter being the
actual host name with an A record supplying the IP.

So it is more efficient, though probably negligibly so, to use msnews.



Bob
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