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Re: microsoft

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Dec 28 13:01:47 2001

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:01:07 -0800
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> Looks to me as if Microsoft is altering global delegation of their 
> windowsupdate service.  Maybe diversifying the dns structure as they did 
> with microsoft.com after the attacks a while back?

attacks?  you mean when they shot themselves in the 2182 foot?

there are some good ways to roll new dns delegations, where integrity is
maintained throughout the process.  there are many bad stoopid ways.  dig
and doc tell me that this is a case of the latter.

randy

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