Oh, come on.... If you query direct to Microsoft's DNS servers, they return MX records happily, but they time out rather then return an A record. This seems more obviously like a software problem, rather then DDoS, or ICANN, who apparently controls Microsoft's DNS servers (laugh out loud) "We don't manage the DNS ourselves, it is a system controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) with worldwide replicas." On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dave McKay wrote: | | jamie rishaw (jamie@arpa.com) wrote: | > So, does anyone know what really is going on (from a technical POV) ? | | Microsoft's ITG is investigating this issue. I haven't been clued in as | of yet as to what is the main issue. Hotmail's graphs and logins are | currently following the same trends as normal, they seem unaffected, | however this is not the case in all locations. DNS seems to be the | obvious choice for the blame. This is not the case in all areas, however. | At this point Microsoft is not willing to put the blame on anyone, or | any protocol for that matter. (Unless they already released a public | statement saying so, then who knows?) Anyway, the issues are being worked | on and service will be restored as soon as possible. I apolozise for not | being able to disclose more information. | | -- | Dave McKay | dave@sneakerz.org | Microsoft Global Network Architect | | --- Rev. Chris Cappuccio -=- http://www.dqc.org/~chris/ "If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you" - Ralph Nader