“Microsoft fingers technicians for crippling site outages”
By Robert Lemos and Melanie Austria Farmer, ZDNet News, January 25, 2001
Microsoft blamed its own technicians for a crucial error that crippled the software giant's connection to the Internet, almost completely blocking access to its major Web sites for nearly 24 hours… a "router configuration error" had caused requests for access to the company’s Web sites to go unanswered…
"This was an operational error and not the result of any issue with Microsoft or third-party products, nor with the security of our networks," a Microsoft spokesman said.
(5 9s possible if site stays up 300 years!)