Re: Problems at Microsoft?

[Larry Smith <lesmith () ecsis net>]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:32, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> Completely unrelated, but apparently Vonage is also
> having some problems this morning:
>
> http://gigaom.com/2005/08/03/massive-vonage-outage/
>
> - ferg
>
>
> -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:44:40AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
> >             Hi there, we've had a few complaints about connectivity
> > issues to Microsoft, is anyone else seeing a problem? Usually I get
> > between 2-3MBps when I download from them, at the moment I get 8k/sec
> > downloading
> > http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/2/b624b535-644a-41e1-9727-812
> > dcd6bad87/E3SP1ENG.EXE (service pack 1 for exchange 03) from Both my
> > network, and a monitoring server we have in chicago.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this?
>
> Seeing this from several locations. For all the locations I am looking
> from, it appears that their CDN service (Savvis footprint.net) has gone
> insane.
>
> From SBC on the west coast, it is going to what looks for all the
> world to be a cable modem in Korea:
>
> 19  catv09634.usr.hananet.net (210.180.96.34)  292.576 ms  218.396 ms 
> 242.135 ms
>
> From a cable modem in Seattle behind broadwing, it is going to this,
> behind SBC in southern California:
>
> 16    62 ms     61ms     50 ms  Savvis-CDN-IAF1075825.cust-rtr.pacbell.net
> [69.108.147.58]
>
> From the northern VA area:
>
>  7  cdn-colo.Frankfurtfrx.savvis.net (208.174.60.2)  90.626 ms  90.722 ms 
> 90.661 ms
>
> Makes you wonder if they'll be switching back to Akamai soon. :)

Hmmm, interesting.  From here, I now show www.microsoft.com and 
download.microsoft.com as being served by Akamai (and get IP addresses of my 
local akamai cluster)...

-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
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