Re: What is going on in the PAC NW (Microsoft Outage)

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <OFF5C3FF78.0778E224-ON882569DE.006B3A50@LocalDomain>, "Tony Rall" w
rites:
> > Is there any information available about Microsoft and MS related
> companies
> > being unavailable
>
> I'm seeing about 50% packet loss to all 4 microsoft.com nameservers.  I
> can't get any dns responses from them.
>
> As, I think, Greg Woods mentioned, it's a pretting weak setup putting all
> of your nameservers on what appears to be the same network.
>
> I am amazed that this has taken so long to fix.

Any chance their nameservers are being DDoSed?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb