Well its working now. Amazing how quickly some problems get fixed after posting at nanog like this.. (or hopefully it was not related and they did it on their own) But I'm sure there was 5 minute outage, at least for me. On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 william@elan.net wrote:
Looks like microsoft is having dns outage.. Anybody else seeing this or is it only me?
[william@sokol william]$ whois microsoft.com@completewhois.com | more
[whois.crsnic.net]
Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
Domain Name: MICROSOFT.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server[with whois ip]: DNS1.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.20 Name Server[with whois ip]: DNS1.TK.MSFT.NET 207.46.245.230 Name Server[with whois ip]: DNS3.UK.MSFT.NET 213.199.144.151 Name Server[with whois ip]: DNS3.JP.MSFT.NET 207.46.72.123 Name Server[with whois ip]: DNS1.DC.MSFT.NET 207.68.128.151 Name Server[with whois ip]: DNS1.SJ.MSFT.NET 65.54.248.222 Updated Date: 07-jun-2002
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[william@sokol william]$ nslookup Default Server: dns1.elan.net Address: 216.151.192.1
server 207.46.138.20 Default Server: [207.46.138.20] Address: 207.46.138.20
www.microsoft.com Server: [207.46.138.20] Address: 207.46.138.20
*** [207.46.138.20] can't find www.microsoft.com: Server failed
server 207.46.245.230 Default Server: dns1.tk.msft.net Address: 207.46.245.230
www.microsoft.com Server: dns1.tk.msft.net Address: 207.46.245.230
*** dns1.tk.msft.net can't find www.microsoft.com: Server failed
server 213.199.144.151 Default Server: dns3.uk.msft.net Address: 213.199.144.151
www.microsoft.com Server: dns3.uk.msft.net Address: 213.199.144.151
*** dns3.uk.msft.net can't find www.microsoft.com: Server failed
exit
[william@sokol william] date [Fri Dec 6 01:18:00 PST 2002
[william@sokol william]$ nslookup Default Server: dns1.elan.net Address: 216.151.192.1
server 207.46.72.123 Default Server: dns3jp.msft.net Address: 207.46.72.123
www.microsoft.com Server: dns3jp.msft.net Address: 207.46.72.123
*** dns3jp.msft.net can't find www.microsoft.com: Server failed
server 207.68.128.151 Default Server: dns1.dc.msft.net Address: 207.68.128.151
www.microsoft.com Server: dns1.dc.msft.net Address: 207.68.128.151
*** dns1.dc.msft.net can't find www.microsoft.com: Server failed
server 65.54.248.222
server 65.54.248.222 Authoritative answers can be found from: 248.54.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.hotmail.com 248.54.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.hotmail.com 248.54.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns3.hotmail.com 248.54.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns4.hotmail.com 248.54.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = tuk1-dns-1.sea.msnglobal.net 248.54.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = tuk2-dns-1.sea.msnglobal.net Default Server: [65.54.248.222] Address: 65.54.248.222
www.microsoft.com Server: [65.54.248.222] Address: 65.54.248.222
*** [65.54.248.222] can't find www.microsoft.com: Server failed
exit