MS explains

Thu Jan 25 13:47:12 UTC 2001

If Microsoft's problem was with routing to their DNS network, why did MX
records resolve just fine?  
I'm afraid I don't understand that part.

Is there policy routing or load balancing or something that can route MX
requests to one set of dns servers while routing host requests to another
set of DNS servers?

As far as I can tell today, responses to my requests of the same DNS server
for host records and MX records are returning from the same IP,
207.46.138.11, so it doesn't appear to me that different DNS servers are
responding to different types of requests.

-----Original Message-----
From: Omachonu Ogali [mailto:missnglnk at informationwave.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:25 AM
To: Dan Hollis
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: MS explains

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:40:19PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> > At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician made a configuration
> > change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's Domain Name Server
> > network.
> > At approximately 5 p.m. Wednesday (PST), Microsoft removed the changes
to
> > the router configuration and immediately saw a massive improvement in
the
> > DNS network.
> 
> So basically, it took microsoft 23 hours to fix a router configuration.
> 
> -Dan
> 
> 

s/router configuration/default route/
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Omachonu Ogali
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