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Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
From: "Tony Rall" <trall () almaden ibm com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:10:29 -0800
The problem with hotmail is not in accessing their web site (it is resolvable and loadable). But login requires a (hidden) link to passport.com, The dns for passport.com is on 2 of the 4 microsoft nameservers that aren't responding. Thus you will not be able to login to hotmail until this is fixed. Tony Rall "Mike Lewinski" <mike () rockynet com>@merit.edu on 2001-01-24 12:10:22 Sent by: owner-nanog () merit edu To: <nanog () merit edu> cc: Subject: 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
Current thread:
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems), (continued)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Eric A. Hall (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Daniel Roesen (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Chris Cappuccio (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Dave McKay (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Steven J. Sobol (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Stephen J. Wilcox (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) poptix (Feb 24)
- Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems) Steve Sobol (Feb 24)