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

[Chris Davis <chris.davis () computerjobs com>]

If you need access to Microsoft sites, try adding 24.88.1.66 to your DNS
search list in your TCP/IP properties.  That's an AT&T Broadband DNS server.
Their DNS servers are having fairly good luck with Microsoft sites.

I can get http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp?fr=0&SD=GN&LN=EN-US

and http://lc7.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login this way.

Before I added 24.88.1.66 to my DNS search list, I couldn't get anything
useful.
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:spork () inch com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:52 PM
To: Dave McKay
Cc: Sean Donelan; nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)



On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dave McKay wrote:

> Hotmail has had no impact regarding this issue.

Umm... On hitting hotmail.com, my browser immediately starts trying to
fetch things from passport.com, which is unreachable.  Technically,
hotmail wasn't affected in that your redirect to passport.com was working.
But seeing as the main index page brings me here:

http://lc1.law13.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login

and this domain is served by:

   DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET             207.46.138.11
   DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET             207.46.138.12

I'd have to say most people were not able to access their hotmail account.
I can support this with the tons of calls support got today about "hotmail
being down".

Damn that ICANN.

Charles

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> Dave McKay
> dave () sneakerz org
> Microsoft Global Network Architect