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

[Jeff Frost <jeff () digitalpipe net>]

The big problem reaching hotmai,l as a few people have pointed out, is
reaching passport.com (where you get redirected from www.hotmail.com if you
aren't already logged in).  Interestingly enough, the passport.com domain uses
2 of the same 4 nameserver...or at least alleged nameservers that
microsoft.com uses:

entropy:/home/jeff% nslookup -q=ns microsoft.com
Server:  squid.digitalpipe.com
Address:  64.68.70.135

Non-authoritative answer:
microsoft.com   nameserver = DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET
microsoft.com   nameserver = DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET
microsoft.com   nameserver = DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET
microsoft.com   nameserver = DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET

Authoritative answers can be found from:
DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.12
DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.21
DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.20
DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.11

entropy:/home/jeff% nslookup -q=ns passport.com
Server:  squid.digitalpipe.com
Address:  64.68.70.135

Non-authoritative answer:
passport.com    nameserver = DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET
passport.com    nameserver = DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET

Authoritative answers can be found from:
DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.11
DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET        internet address = 207.46.138.12

Anyone want to speculate on why passport.com would only list 2 of the 4
nameservers?  Also, anyone want to speculate why all the nameservers are in
the same subnet?  Oh, I guess they aren't necessarily in the same subnet, but
it sure seems likely doesn't it?


On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Yogesh Devaraj wrote:

> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Dave McKay wrote:
> >
> > > Sean Donelan (sean () donelan com) wrote:
> > > > Well, AT&T couldn't fix the problem, but at least their customer
> > > > service people knew there was a problem and were willing to attempt
> > > > contact with someone at Microsoft.
> > > >
> > > > Most Microsoft sites (Microsoft.com, MSN.com, Hotmail.com, etc.)
> > > > are affected. The Microsoft technical team is troubleshooting this
> > > > issue.
> > >
> > > Hotmail has had no impact regarding this issue.
> >
> > Dave, are you certain of that?
>
> i don't have any problems accessing hotmail.. but have with microsoft.com.
>
> > traceroute www.hotmail.com
> traceroute: Warning: checksums disabled
> traceroute: Warning: www.hotmail.com has multiple addresses; using 209.185.243.135
> traceroute to www.hotmail.com (209.185.243.135), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  171.69.58.2 (171.69.58.2)  0.93 ms  0.65 ms  0.60 ms
>  2  sjce-bb1-gw2.cisco.com (171.69.14.77)  0.76 ms  0.69 ms  0.65 ms
>  3  sjce-corp-gw2.cisco.com (171.69.14.165)  0.77 ms  0.74 ms  0.67 ms
>  4  sj-wall-2.cisco.com (198.92.1.138)  0.65 ms  0.97 ms  0.80 ms
>  5  sjc-k-dirty-gw1.cisco.com (192.31.7.30)  1.83 ms  0.98 ms  0.65 ms
>  6  barrnet-gw.cisco.com (128.107.240.182)  3.54 ms  2.31 ms  4.22 ms
>  7  s6-2.paloalto-cr1.bbnplanet.net (4.1.142.237)  3.40 ms  1.78 ms  1.66 ms
>  8  p0-2.mshotmail.bbnplanet.net (4.0.24.6)  6.26 ms  5.11 ms  5.17 ms
>  9  * * *
> 10  law5-rsp-c-f810.hotmail.com (216.32.183.14)  11.25 ms  8.19 ms  6.39 ms
> 11  lc2.law5.hotmail.com (209.185.243.135)  8.20 ms  6.73 ms  6.66 ms
>
> > traceroute www.microsoft.com
> traceroute: Warning: ckecksums disabled
> traceroute: unknown host www.microsoft.com
>
> _Yogesh_
>
> > Because I can't get to the hotmail.com login page right this second and have
> > received complaints from several associates that they can't get into their
> > hotmail accounts.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Frost          VP Technology
> > <jeff () digitalpipe net>   Digital Pipe Communications, Inc.