Microsoft DNS outage

Thu Jan 25 04:52:03 UTC 2001

Maybe this whole DNS outage (unbelievable IMHO)
is just a cover up for their attempt to fix damage
caused by real serious (read: difficult to fix)
problems they have?

Przemek

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Joseph T. Klein
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:37 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Microsoft DNS outage

It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of
network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and
network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have
occurred.

Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure.

An important lesson is contained herein.
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