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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:

> Here's a story on MS's rationale for the outage:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16354.html
> 
> Hm.  They're changing the DNS configuration, and they didn't have the old 
> system on standby, ready to take over ASAP if the first fails?   Have these 
> guys EVER worked in a major data center (and yes, it's a rhetorical question)?

It's interesting that this should have happened now. I had exactly the
same problem where I worked, that finally turned out to be an error in our
DNS configuration that was made over a year ago. It never actually caused
a problem until last week, and when I asked about it on the mailing lists,
I heard from a bunch of people that they had experienced the same kinds of
problems just recently.

I suspect what we're really seeing here is fallout from the root
nameservers being under stress.

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