[33819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is going on in the PAC NW (Microsoft Outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Jan 24 16:07:22 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Tony Rall" <trall@almaden.ibm.com>
Cc: SMcGrath@dhhs.state.nh.us, nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:07:22 -0500
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In message <OFF5C3FF78.0778E224-ON882569DE.006B3A50@LocalDomain>, "Tony Rall" w
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>>Is there any information available about Microsoft and MS related
>companies
>>being unavailable
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>I'm seeing about 50% packet loss to all 4 microsoft.com nameservers. I
>can't get any dns responses from them.
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>As, I think, Greg Woods mentioned, it's a pretting weak setup putting all
>of your nameservers on what appears to be the same network.
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>I am amazed that this has taken so long to fix.
Any chance their nameservers are being DDoSed?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
