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Re: MicroSoft amplification?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Aug 1 20:18:57 2001

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: "Tony Rall" <trall@almaden.ibm.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:18:23 -0400
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In message <OF3DD9155A.FA5F9232-ON88256A9B.00804F54@almaden.ibm.com>, "Tony Ral
l" writes:
>
>I see it too, on that address and on the second of the 3 addresses mapped 
>to www.microsoft.com (the third address doesn't respond at all).
>
>Most likely this is due to a not very smart load distribution system.

I'm told that that is indeed the case.  Well, strike the "not very 
smart" part -- I wasn't told that -- but I was told that it is indeed
because of the load distribution system.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb



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