From: Craig Partridge [mailto:craig@aland.bbn.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:33 PM

In message <3A6F3FB8.FA526852@senie.com>, Daniel Senie writes:

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Looking at traces to Microsoft's DNS servers (which are all hosted on the same ISP backbone, bad idea) shows 50% packet loss right now from ATT Broadband. It's possible the servers will actually answer DNS queries, but the protocols don't survive all that well in the face of 50% or greater packet loss.

Past evidence (like times in 1987 and 1988 when we ran the DNS over links with 50% loss and higher, and experience on the bottlenecked trans Atlantic cable a few years back) suggests the DNS works pretty well with high loss regimes.

s/pretty/amazingly/