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

[Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com>]

In message <3A6F3FB8.FA526852 () senie com>, Daniel Senie writes:

> Looking at traces to Microsoft's DNS servers (which are all hosted on
> the same ISP backbone, bad idea) shows 50% packet loss right now from
> ATT Broadband. It's possible the servers will actually answer DNS
> queries, but the protocols don't survive all that well in the face of
> 50% or greater packet loss.

Past evidence (like times in 1987 and 1988 when we ran the DNS over
links with 50% loss and higher, and experience on the bottlenecked trans
Atlantic cable a few years back) suggests the DNS works pretty well
with high loss regimes.

Craig