Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () opaltelecom co uk>]

Hotmail NS:
ns3.hotmail.com internet address = 209.185.130.68
ns1.hotmail.com internet address = 216.200.206.140

Whereas Microsoft NS:
DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.20
DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.11
DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.12
DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.21

A simple nslookup to the above servers says:
nslookup -q=ns microsoft.com dns6.cp.msft.net
*** Can't find server name for address 207.46.138.20: No response from server
*** Default servers are not available

Just to check, the 207.46.138 dns servers belong to:

route:         207.46.128.0/18
descr:         MS-CP
origin:        AS8070
mnt-by:        MICROSOFT-MAINT-CW
changed:       judithsh () microsoft com 20001024
source:        CW


And so without doubt, it is MS themselves who are down not icann, root dns
or anything else...

Steve

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Stephen J. Wilcox
Internet Manager, Opal Telecom
http://www.opaltelecom.co.uk/
Tel: 0161 222 2000
Fax: 0161 222 2008

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Mike Lewinski wrote:

> > > 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