[33875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Microsoft DNS outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Klein)
Wed Jan 24 21:56:28 2001
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:36:35 -0500
From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
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It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of
network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and
network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have
occurred.
Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure.
An important lesson is contained herein.
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Joseph T. Klein jtk@titania.net +1 414 915 7489
"Omnium rerum principia parva sunt." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
