[33822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Wed Jan 24 16:27:22 2001
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:48:56 -0500
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Well, whether Microsoft gets their DNS records fixed or not in the root
zones (assuming that's even the problem), they STILL won't get much
traffic from some avenues. Packet loss rates to many destinations off
ATT's network range from 50% to 100%
Looking at traces to Microsoft's DNS servers (which are all hosted on
the same ISP backbone, bad idea) shows 50% packet loss right now from
ATT Broadband. It's possible the servers will actually answer DNS
queries, but the protocols don't survive all that well in the face of
50% or greater packet loss.
Looks like several problems in the wild today...
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