[33839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Gifford)
Wed Jan 24 18:22:37 2001
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From: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
Date: 24 Jan 2001 17:04:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: Sean Donelan's message of "24 Jan 2001 11:40:15 -0800"
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Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> writes:
> Microsoft appears to be blaming ICANN for the failure with Microft's
> domain name servers (all located at the same place at Microsoft).
>
> Microsoft has yet to pin down the cause of the DNS error. "It can
> be a system or human error, but somebody could also have done this
> intentionally," De Jonge said. "We don't manage the DNS ourselves,
> it is a system controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names and Numbers (ICANN) with worldwide replicas."
Saying that it was the fault of anybody besides Microsoft is simply
not correct...a Perl script I use for diagnosing DNS problems reported
last night one root-server down (c), one gtld server (j) down, and all
but one of Microsoft's DNS servers down.
Asking a.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking b.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking c.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'c.root-servers.net': query timed out
Asking d.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking e.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking f.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking g.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking h.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking i.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking j.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking k.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking l.root-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking dns4.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com
Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'dns4.cp.msft.net': query timed out
Asking dns5.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com
Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'dns5.cp.msft.net': query timed out
Asking dns7.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com
Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'dns7.cp.msft.net': query timed out
Asking dns6.cp.msft.net about www.msn.com
Asking e.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking f.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking j.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Error searching for 'www.msn.com' at 'j.gtld-servers.net': query timed out
Asking k.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking a.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking m.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking g.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking c.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking i.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking b.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
Asking d.gtld-servers.net about www.msn.com
1 hosts [ 101/ 101 paths = 100.00% chance ] (dns6.cp.msft.net) reported: Sample path: a.root-servers.net -> dns6.cp.msft.net
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.179.134
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.179.143
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.179.71
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.185.138
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.185.140
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.209.218
www.msn.com. 0 IN A 207.46.209.243
------ScottG.
