Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
Most Microsoft sites (Microsoft.com, MSN.com, Hotmail.com, etc.) are affected. The Microsoft technical team is troubleshooting this issue.
Hotmail has had no impact regarding this issue.
That's *not* what our clients have reported or what I observe. Some clients have hotmail set as their start page and are calling to report "The internet is DOWN!" To make matters worse, IE's default 'auto.search.msn.com' which is used when a site is unreachable is itself unreachable. So client's aren't even getting the marginally useful error page normally displayed if a site can't be contacted. I observed the same behaviors from a dialup outside our network ~9am MST, and no connections to www.hotmail.com were possible. It doesn't appear to be a DNS resolution issue for 'hotmail.com', as I can telnet www.hotmail.com 80 and GET / HTTP1.1 to retrieve the page. But Internet Explorer does *not* load the page, appearing to hang while attempting to access 'passport.com' which does not have resolution currently. Mike
Hotmail NS: ns3.hotmail.com internet address = 209.185.130.68 ns1.hotmail.com internet address = 216.200.206.140 Whereas Microsoft NS: DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.20 DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.11 DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.12 DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.21 A simple nslookup to the above servers says: nslookup -q=ns microsoft.com dns6.cp.msft.net *** Can't find server name for address 207.46.138.20: No response from server *** Default servers are not available Just to check, the 207.46.138 dns servers belong to: route: 207.46.128.0/18 descr: MS-CP origin: AS8070 mnt-by: MICROSOFT-MAINT-CW changed: judithsh@microsoft.com 20001024 source: CW And so without doubt, it is MS themselves who are down not icann, root dns or anything else... Steve -- Stephen J. Wilcox Internet Manager, Opal Telecom http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/ Tel: 0161 222 2000 Fax: 0161 222 2008 On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Mike Lewinski wrote:
Most Microsoft sites (Microsoft.com, MSN.com, Hotmail.com, etc.) are affected. The Microsoft technical team is troubleshooting this issue.
Hotmail has had no impact regarding this issue.
That's *not* what our clients have reported or what I observe.
Some clients have hotmail set as their start page and are calling to report "The internet is DOWN!"
To make matters worse, IE's default 'auto.search.msn.com' which is used when a site is unreachable is itself unreachable. So client's aren't even getting the marginally useful error page normally displayed if a site can't be contacted.
I observed the same behaviors from a dialup outside our network ~9am MST, and no connections to www.hotmail.com were possible.
It doesn't appear to be a DNS resolution issue for 'hotmail.com', as I can telnet www.hotmail.com 80 and GET / HTTP1.1 to retrieve the page. But Internet Explorer does *not* load the page, appearing to hang while attempting to access 'passport.com' which does not have resolution currently.
Mike
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