[33899] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: From Microsoft's site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Thu Jan 25 00:22:46 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Jeremy Randall' <jr@jeremyrandall.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:43:34 -0800
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> At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician made a
> configuration
> change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's Domain Name Server
> network. The DNS servers are used to connect domain names with numeric
> IP addresses (e.g. 207.46.230.219) of the various servers and networks
> that make up Microsoft's Web presence.
Connect 22.5 hours worth of dots between these two events.
> At approximately 5 p.m. Wednesday (PST), Microsoft removed the changes
> to the router configuration and immediately saw a massive
> improvement in the DNS network.
Their management should be real embarrassed to take so long to back out the
last-change.
