What is going on in the PAC NW (Microsoft Outage)

Wed Jan 24 20:07:22 UTC 2001

In message <OFF5C3FF78.0778E224-ON882569DE.006B3A50 at LocalDomain>, "Tony Rall" w
rites:
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>>Is there any information available about Microsoft and MS related
>companies
>>being unavailable
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>I'm seeing about 50% packet loss to all 4 microsoft.com nameservers.  I
>can't get any dns responses from them.
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>As, I think, Greg Woods mentioned, it's a pretting weak setup putting all
>of your nameservers on what appears to be the same network.
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>I am amazed that this has taken so long to fix.

Any chance their nameservers are being DDoSed?

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