microsoft's site down?

TimDgsr · Jun 15, 2004

anyone else notice that www.microsoft.com happens to be down right now?

they released service pack 2 rc2 yesterday, but i seriously doubt that would be the reason that their entire site is down?

james.miller · Jun 15, 2004

works fine here

TimDgsr · Jun 15, 2004

this is no good. no computers at work can hit microsoft.com and several of the microsoft sites. but now that you said that, i remoted to my home computer, and i can hit everything just fine from there.

so far I can hit the windowsupdate.microsoft.com fine, but

support.microsoft.com, microsoft.com, msdn.microsoft.com, and microsoft.com/hardware don't work from here at the office.

and i thought today was going to be boring. :bang head

edit: seems to have worked itself out, wondering if it was a routing issue? idk

Mat Sumpter · Jun 15, 2004

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/15/1427213.shtml?tid=126&tid=95

"Checking all my favorite sites this morning, I saw that about half a dozen seem to be offline. Trying to figure out why, I found an interesting article on the front page at http://isc.incidents.org/. Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others. Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"

james.miller · Jun 15, 2004

you know thats the first time ive seen the silver stars lol.

TimDgsr · Jun 15, 2004

i could still hit the other sites when microsoft was down, i guess it took microsoft longer to move to their own DNS

thanks for the info :clap:

JFettig · Jun 15, 2004

maybe they tried to switch from unix servers to windows servers?

Captain Newbie · Jun 16, 2004

JFettig said:
maybe they tried to switch from unix servers to windows servers?

Probably.

"Checking all my favorite sites this morning, I saw that about half a dozen seem to be offline. Trying to figure out why, I found an interesting article on the front page at http://isc.incidents.org/. Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others. Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"

Yeah...that's a grade AA "whoopsies". *sigh* So much for decentralization.

Captain Newbie · Jun 16, 2004

Talk about your Grade AA whoopsies...and so much for decentralization of the 'net.

Foxie3a · Jun 18, 2004

Microsoft uses Windows 2003 Enterprise for their website... I remember reading something about the top 100 businesses in the world. All of them are on Windows NT, except for Microsoft that claims you NEED 2003.

Isn't NT from the Win98 days too? Amazing...

gusgizmo · Jun 19, 2004

yeah, i think dns is the achilles heel of the internet. maybe someday someone will think of something better. i kinda feel like dns is more of a patch placed ontop of the internets ideals than anything else. oh well, what can we do in the meantime? cache dns on our home network servers? its what i do, and i think im ready for the next internet apocalypse.

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