[33856] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Wed Jan 24 20:02:39 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Craig Partridge' <craig@aland.bbn.com>,
Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:02:39 -0800
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> From: Craig Partridge [mailto:craig@aland.bbn.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:33 PM
>
> 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.
s/pretty/amazingly/
