[33942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Jan 25 12:45:52 2001
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:38:22 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 02:08 AM 1/25/2001 -0600, poptix@sleepybox.poptix.net wrote:
>
>www.microsoft.com is already a CNAME for www.microsoft.akadns.net, aka,
>Akamai =) (Didn't I hear microsoft touting it's wonderful clustering/load
>balancing features in W2k?)
<simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>
Please note that if you cannot get a reply from the authoritative name
server for [domain].[foo], you cannot be given the CNAME for a host.
</simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>
(No comment on the reliability of Windows is intended.)
> -poptix
TTFN,
patrick
