[44902] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: microsoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Schulte)
Fri Dec 28 13:11:11 2001
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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:07:52 -0600
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+nanog-post@nospam.schulte.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 10:01 AM 12/28/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> > 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?
I'm not aware of the exact reasons for their problems. I heard of a few
DoS attacks which crippled them due to poor network diversification /
design / foo.
>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.
This is unquestionably the case. Good = nobody notices enough to start
`dig`ging around in the first place.
>randy
--c
