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RE: Microsoft DNS outage

  • From: Matt Levine
  • Date: Wed Jan 24 22:33:35 2001 
Agreed, but probably a moot point unless they did the same with the actual
web systems themselves (ie: dns is up, but web servers can't respond due to
DoS).


Matt
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Joseph T. Klein
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:37 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Microsoft DNS outage



It looks like the Microsoft name servers lack any sort of
network diversity. If they had servers in geographically and
network diverse location perhaps this outage would not have
occurred.

Diversity is the best protection against systemic failure.

An important lesson is contained herein.
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