[33961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (poptix@sleepybox.poptix.net)
Thu Jan 25 15:38:58 2001
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:26:46 -0600 (CST)
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To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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Sorry, I read his post after someone mentioned Akamai, somehow my brain
crossed the two and I responded to this one, I'm well aware of the
limitations that lack of internet connectivity impose on DNS servers =)
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
