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RE: Microsoft DNS outage

  • From: Przemyslaw Karwasiecki
  • Date: Thu Jan 25 00:46:16 2001 
Maybe this whole DNS outage (unbelievable IMHO)
is just a cover up for their attempt to fix damage
caused by real serious (read: difficult to fix)
problems they have?

Przemek

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
Joseph T. Klein
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Microsoft DNS outage



It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of
network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and
network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have
occurred.

Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure.

An important lesson is contained herein.
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Joseph T. Klein         [email protected]        +1 414 915 7489

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