Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[Matti Aarnio]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:59:13PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 	No...  Microsoft learned, just two days ago, something that has
> been part of best practices for over 15 years.  Do NOT put all of your
> DNS servers on the same network!  The technical error may have triggered
> the meltdown but if they had distributed their DNS the way they were
> suppose to, it would have NOT taken them totally out.  It wasn't the
> technician's mistake.  It was the single point of failure (and subsequently
> the single point of attack).  He just triggered it.

   Nope, they didn't learn it yet.

   Although asking NS pointers from Microsoft's DNS servers shows
   a set Akamai's DNS servers along with MS' ones, those must be
   listed at .COM  for them to become used...

whois -h whois.internic.net  microsoft.com
...
   Record last updated on 24-Jan-2001.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET             207.46.138.11
   DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET             207.46.138.12
   DNS6.CP.MSFT.NET             207.46.138.20
   DNS7.CP.MSFT.NET             207.46.138.21

> 	Mike
> -- 
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/Matti Aarnio