At 11:35 24/01/01 -0800, Tony Rall wrote:

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Is there any information available about Microsoft and MS related companies being unavailable

I'm seeing about 50% packet loss to all 4 microsoft.com nameservers. I can't get any dns responses from them.

The following is all hypothesis: Reading the MS announcement that says "At 6:30 last night, a configuration change was made by a Microsoft technician to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's DNS network", and adding in the 50% packet loss you list above, it looks like the MS technician installed some sort of Cisco TCP/UDP rate-limit on some interface along the data path. -Hank