[33817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lewinski)
Wed Jan 24 15:58:00 2001
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From: "Mike Lewinski" <mike@rockynet.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:10:22 -0700
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> > Most Microsoft sites (Microsoft.com, MSN.com, Hotmail.com, etc.)
> > are affected. The Microsoft technical team is troubleshooting this
> > issue.
>
> Hotmail has had no impact regarding this issue.
That's *not* what our clients have reported or what I observe.
Some clients have hotmail set as their start page and are calling to
report "The internet is DOWN!"
To make matters worse, IE's default 'auto.search.msn.com' which is used
when a site is unreachable is itself unreachable. So client's aren't
even getting the marginally useful error page normally displayed if a
site can't be contacted.
I observed the same behaviors from a dialup outside our network ~9am
MST, and no connections to www.hotmail.com were possible.
It doesn't appear to be a DNS resolution issue for 'hotmail.com', as I
can telnet www.hotmail.com 80 and GET / HTTP1.1 to retrieve the page.
But Internet Explorer does *not* load the page, appearing to hang while
attempting to access 'passport.com' which does not have resolution
currently.
Mike
