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> From: Craig Partridge [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:33 PM > > 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. s/pretty/amazingly/
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