Microsoft problems?

Mon Oct 11 18:47:14 UTC 2004

Ar Mon, 11 Oct 2004 14:26:33 -0400, scríobh Chaim Fried:
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> Anybody know of any prolonged outages at Microsoft (MSN
> messenger)today?

Yes we've been having them for the past two days... messenger.msn.com has been unreachable for approximately 93.27% of the two days. We've had to resort to using ICQ. Doesn't get past the international carrier of any of our providers (4 of).

traceroute: Warning: messenger.msn.com has multiple addresses; using 65.54.213.62
traceroute to messenger.msn.com (65.54.213.62), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  10.2.0.1 (10.2.0.1)  0.217 ms  0.142 ms  0.114 ms
 2  62.231.46.89 (62.231.46.89)  3.544 ms  1.687 ms  1.735 ms
 3  tallaght-vl-vlan-1.irishbroadband.ie (62.231.34.113)  173.032 ms  23.036 ms  4.221 ms
 4  3rock-et-2-4.irishbroadband.ie (62.231.32.149)  7.103 ms  12.946 ms  5.979 ms
 5  rte-et-2-7.irishbroadband.ie (62.231.32.182)  6.499 ms  8.569 ms  6.775 ms
 6  ix-et-1-1.irishbroadband.ie (195.26.12.61)  13.756 ms  8.465 ms  11.021 ms
 7  213.228.228.82 (213.228.228.82)  158.750 ms  157.042 ms  159.437 ms
 8  * * *
<snip stars>

Ken