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

Thu Jan 25 12:49:16 UTC 2001

At 11:35 24/01/01 -0800, Tony Rall wrote:

> >Is there any information available about Microsoft and MS related
>companies
> >being unavailable
>
>I'm seeing about 50% packet loss to all 4 microsoft.com nameservers.  I
>can't get any dns responses from them.

The following is all hypothesis:

Reading the MS announcement that says "At 6:30 last night, a configuration 
change was made by a Microsoft technician to the routers on the edge of 
Microsoft's DNS network", and adding in the 50% packet loss you list above, 
it looks like the MS technician installed some sort of Cisco TCP/UDP 
rate-limit on some interface along the data path.

-Hank