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

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Jan 24 16:09:39 2001 
In message <[email protected]>, "Tony Rall" w
rites:
>
>
>>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.
>
>As, I think, Greg Woods mentioned, it's a pretting weak setup putting all
>of your nameservers on what appears to be the same network.
>
>I am amazed that this has taken so long to fix.

Any chance their nameservers are being DDoSed?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb