24 Jan
2001
24 Jan
'01
11:43 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician made a configuration change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's Domain Name Server network. The DNS servers are used to connect domain names with numeric IP addresses (e.g. 207.46.230.219) of the various servers and networks that make up Microsoft's Web presence.
Connect 22.5 hours worth of dots between these two events.
At approximately 5 p.m. Wednesday (PST), Microsoft removed the changes to the router configuration and immediately saw a massive improvement in the DNS network.
Their management should be real embarrassed to take so long to back out the last-change.