[33846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cappuccio)
Wed Jan 24 18:57:56 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:12:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>
To: Dave McKay <dave@sneakerz.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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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."
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dave McKay wrote:
|
| jamie rishaw (jamie@arpa.com) wrote:
| > So, does anyone know what really is going on (from a technical POV) ?
|
| Microsoft's ITG is investigating this issue. I haven't been clued in as
| of yet as to what is the main issue. Hotmail's graphs and logins are
| currently following the same trends as normal, they seem unaffected,
| however this is not the case in all locations. DNS seems to be the
| obvious choice for the blame. This is not the case in all areas, however.
| At this point Microsoft is not willing to put the blame on anyone, or
| any protocol for that matter. (Unless they already released a public
| statement saying so, then who knows?) Anyway, the issues are being worked
| on and service will be restored as soon as possible. I apolozise for not
| being able to disclose more information.
|
| --
| Dave McKay
| dave@sneakerz.org
| Microsoft Global Network Architect
|
|
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