Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Thu Jan 25 17:38:22 UTC 2001


At 02:08 AM 1/25/2001 -0600, poptix at sleepybox.poptix.net wrote:
 >
 >www.microsoft.com is already a CNAME for www.microsoft.akadns.net, aka,
 >Akamai =)  (Didn't I hear microsoft touting it's wonderful clustering/load
 >balancing features in W2k?)

<simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>
Please note that if you cannot get a reply from the authoritative name 
server for [domain].[foo], you cannot be given the CNAME for a host.
</simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>

(No comment on the reliability of Windows is intended.)


 >		-poptix

TTFN,
patrick





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