Yahoo...?

[Boerseun]

So, popping in at Yahoo and following a few news item links from the front page, and my browser crashes on the redirect. I thought it was a MicroShaft error on my lappie, but it's happened on my box at home, too, and on all the machines at random clients I've been at over the last few weeks.

Only conclusion I can come to is that Yahoo went for a ball of manure, and nobody told them about it...

Anybody else here found the same errors, or am I the last Yahoo user left on Planet Earth? In which case reporting this error will be my responsibility...

[CraigD]

Exactly how do you produce the browser crash?

I tried opening Yahoo!, then clicking on the title of the “Featured” story (“Irwin thought he'd die young” at this time). All was OK.

Perhaps one of the ad scripts is doing something odd? I’ve had them make Both IE and Firefox under Windows go unresponsive, though I can’t recall an actual trask-ending crash.

[alexander]

there is a n html code sequence that will crash IE anytime and every time... it was featured on slashdot a while ago.... i thought i mentioned it here too, but too lazy to search :P

actually last 2 weeks have been insane so, i'm trying not to stress out and relax

[Boerseun]

I prolly overstated it somewhat.

It doesn't "crash" the browser, it merely can't find the referred page.
I think it might be a DNS issue over in SA, 'cause it's still happening.
I can't open any pages referred to on Yahoo's front page, although searches and following links supplied by search results works fine.

And it's not my computer. It's happening to my home pc, my laptop, and all the machines from clients I've visited the last two weeks.

Incredibly strange.

Maybe some sort of DNS reorganisation on the SA subnet cocked it up. I dunno.

[01bits]

It seem be caused by DNS reorganisation.