Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN
At 02:08 AM 1/25/2001 -0600, poptix@sleepybox.poptix.net wrote:
www.microsoft.com is already a CNAME for www.microsoft.akadns.net, aka, Akamai =) (Didn't I hear microsoft touting it's wonderful clustering/load balancing features in W2k?)
<simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows> Please note that if you cannot get a reply from the authoritative name server for [domain].[foo], you cannot be given the CNAME for a host. </simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows> (No comment on the reliability of Windows is intended.)
-poptix
TTFN, patrick
Sorry, I read his post after someone mentioned Akamai, somehow my brain crossed the two and I responded to this one, I'm well aware of the limitations that lack of internet connectivity impose on DNS servers =) On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
At 02:08 AM 1/25/2001 -0600, poptix@sleepybox.poptix.net wrote:
www.microsoft.com is already a CNAME for www.microsoft.akadns.net, aka, Akamai =) (Didn't I hear microsoft touting it's wonderful clustering/load balancing features in W2k?)
<simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows> Please note that if you cannot get a reply from the authoritative name server for [domain].[foo], you cannot be given the CNAME for a host. </simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>
(No comment on the reliability of Windows is intended.)
-poptix
TTFN, patrick
participants (2)
-
Patrick W. Gilmore -
poptix＠sleepybox.poptix.net