[33844] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave McKay)
Wed Jan 24 18:48:25 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:32:36 -0600
From: Dave McKay <dave@sneakerz.org>
To: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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I'll just point out a few lines I wrote. I have tried to be polite about
all of this.
Chris Cappuccio (chris@dqc.org) wrote:
> Oh, come on....
>
> If you query direct to Microsoft's DNS servers, they return MX records
> happily, but they time out rather then return an A record.
>
> This seems more obviously like a software problem, rather then DDoS, or
> ICANN, who apparently controls Microsoft's DNS servers (laugh out loud)
>
> "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."
Microsoft's ITG is investigating this issue. I haven't been clued in as
of yet as to what is the main issue.
I apolozise for not being able to disclose more information.
--
Dave McKay
dave@sneakerz.org
Microsoft Global Network Architect
