Re: Name server problems? or did Microsoft forget to pay their billagain?

["Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>]

> It seems like a number of Microsoft related web sites have vanished.

> I noticed name server problems earlier this evening.  Is this
> spreading?

windowsupdate.microsoft.com was also really sporadic for a while earlier,
but I was able to eventually get an answer. As you suggested, connections
to the hosts are going through fine once you get an answer.

dns4.cp.msft.net. through dns7.cp.msft.net (the auth servers) are pinging
fine but DNS queries sent to those hosts timeout. The address block does
appear to belong to Microsoft so... maybe they misconfigured their
firewall or sumtin.

Also noticed extremely high levels of packet loss to them earlier but that
appears to be straightened out.

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