[33834] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Wed Jan 24 17:46:20 2001
Message-Id: <200101242133.QAA18301@aland.bbn.com>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:48:56 EST."
<3A6F3FB8.FA526852@senie.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:33:20 -0500
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In message <3A6F3FB8.FA526852@senie.com>, Daniel Senie writes:
>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.
Past evidence (like times in 1987 and 1988 when we ran the DNS over
links with 50% loss and higher, and experience on the bottlenecked trans
Atlantic cable a few years back) suggests the DNS works pretty well
with high loss regimes.
Craig
