Problems at Microsoft?

Wed Aug 3 18:35:35 UTC 2005

Richard,

You're not lying when you say the resolvers are spitting out different
results every minute, now the Cox uplink here goes from Dallas to San
Jose to and endpoint in Tokyo.

*Insert obligatory Microsoft expletive here*

JWP

On 8/3/05, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:01:59PM -0500, Justin W. Pauler wrote:
> >
> > New Zeland and Australia? Me thinks someone goofed. And what's really
> > strange is that Monday I ran this exact same traceroute for
> > informational purposes and at or around hop #7 - cox dallas handed off
> > to atlanta who handed off to msn.net directly.
> 
> Seems like the problem has been confirmed to be Savvis. In some places
> Akadns is returning real Akamai sites with correct routing:
> 
> download.microsoft.com is an alias for main.dl.ms.akadns.net.
> main.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for dom.dl.ms.akadns.net.
> dom.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for dl.ms.d4p.net.
> dl.ms.d4p.net is an alias for dl.ms.georedirector.akadns.net.
> dl.ms.georedirector.akadns.net is an alias for a767.ms.akamai.net.
> 
> In others it is returning download.microsoft.com.c.footprint.net:
> 
> download.microsoft.com is an alias for main.dl.ms.akadns.net.
> main.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for dom.dl.ms.akadns.net.
> dom.dl.ms.akadns.net is an alias for
> download.microsoft.com.c.footprint.net
> 
> The footprint.net CDN appears to be updating every minute or so with new
> data, each more broken than the last. So far this morning I've also seen
> (from various places not near any of the final sites):
> 
> cdn-colo.Frankfurtfrx.savvis.net 90.626 ms
> ge-0-0-1.a20.taiptw01.tw.ra.verio.net 197.312 ms
> so-2-0-1-0.par22.ip.tiscali.net  82.875 ms
> iadvantage-1.gw2.hkg3.asianetcom.net 238.817 ms
> xe-0-1-0.a20.osakjp01.jp.ra.verio.net 271.745 ms
> bcr1-so-1-0-0.Londonlnx.savvis.net 167.918 ms
> cpr2-pos-0-0.VirginiaEquinix.savvis.net 90.493 ms
> ae-11-51.car1.Atlanta1.Level3.net 149.736 ms
> 
> If you really want to download something from microsoft at faster than
> crawl speeds, try moving your resolvers around to find a nameserver that
> is getting real Akamai results. Otherwise, wait for Savvis and/or MS to
> get their act together. :)
> 
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