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Re: MicroSoft amplification?

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Wed Aug 01 20:20:40 2001

In message <[email protected]>, "Tony Ral
l" writes:
>
>I see it too, on that address and on the second of the 3 addresses mapped 
>to www.microsoft.com (the third address doesn't respond at all).
>
>Most likely this is due to a not very smart load distribution system.

I'm told that that is indeed the case.  Well, strike the "not very 
smart" part -- I wasn't told that -- but I was told that it is indeed
because of the load distribution system.

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