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In message <[email protected]>, Daniel Senie writes: >Looking at traces to Microsoft's DNS servers (which are all hosted on >the same ISP backbone, bad idea) shows 50% packet loss right now from >ATT Broadband. It's possible the servers will actually answer DNS >queries, but the protocols don't survive all that well in the face of >50% or greater packet loss. Past evidence (like times in 1987 and 1988 when we ran the DNS over links with 50% loss and higher, and experience on the bottlenecked trans Atlantic cable a few years back) suggests the DNS works pretty well with high loss regimes. Craig
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