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Re: MS explains

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Thu Jan 25 20:57:46 2001

Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:51:52 -0800
From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: Chris Davis <chris.davis@computerjobs.com>,
	"'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:29:37AM -0800, John Payne wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:47:12AM -0500, Chris Davis wrote:
> > 
> > If Microsoft's problem was with routing to their DNS network, why did MX
> > records resolve just fine?  
> > I'm afraid I don't understand that part.
> 
> I was wondering that as well.  Oh, and it seems to have happened again...
> I'm getting timeouts for microsoft.com and msnbc.com as yesterday.  Although
> one box that has it cached has a 54 minute TTL, so I'm guessing it happened
> recently.

http://www.microsoft.com/info/siteaccess.htm has been updated.  Jan 25th
outage was a DoS attack.

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