It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have occurred. Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure. An important lesson is contained herein. -- Joseph T. Klein jtk@titania.net +1 414 915 7489 "Omnium rerum principia parva sunt." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Agreed, but probably a moot point unless they did the same with the actual web systems themselves (ie: dns is up, but web servers can't respond due to DoS). Matt -- Matt Levine, CTO <mlevine@efront.com> eFront Media, Inc. - http://www.efront.com Phone: +1 714 428 8500 ext. 504 Fax : +1 949 203 2156 ICQ : 17080004 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Joseph T. Klein Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:37 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Microsoft DNS outage It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have occurred. Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure. An important lesson is contained herein. -- Joseph T. Klein jtk@titania.net +1 414 915 7489 "Omnium rerum principia parva sunt." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maybe this whole DNS outage (unbelievable IMHO) is just a cover up for their attempt to fix damage caused by real serious (read: difficult to fix) problems they have? Przemek -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Joseph T. Klein Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:37 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Microsoft DNS outage It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have occurred. Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure. An important lesson is contained herein. -- Joseph T. Klein jtk@titania.net +1 414 915 7489 "Omnium rerum principia parva sunt." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
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