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Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by beat »

mrmondo wrote: post #10
beat wrote: post #8

It'll be interesting to find out the root cause, assuming it ever comes out. Malice or stupidity? Did someone do an oops within the Outlook team (or some other team), or are they under attack?

My guess is someone messed up when making a change to their DNS

DNS problems are at least partly affecting the microsoft.com homepage as well.

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by a3n »

thisisdallas wrote: post #5

It looks like a lot of their other services are down too. Edit: Also, the Xbox One is launching tonight so if their Live servers are down...it won't be pretty.

Ah, maybe it had something to do with the Xbox One launch. Updates, under pressure, mix and serve.

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

#14

Post by Einherji »

jldugger wrote: post #6
gamblor956 wrote: post #4

I have no problem accessing Outlook.com, Office 365, Skydrive, or any other Microsoft website. The problem many be regional...or it may be with your ISP.

There's a lot more than one person complaining on twitter. I've seen reports from New Zealand, Kansas, my linode in Dallas, Oregon, etc.

Yup. I'm in Iceland and every microsoft service is unreachable, except my regional version of microsoft.com

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

#15

Post by kristofferR »

Edit: It's back up now.

Yup, it's pretty broken, though it is still up some places.

Outlook.com:

  Grapevine TX, United States (bigguy.gte.net) - Down
  Sacramento CA, United States (CalWeb) - Down	
  Providence RI, United States (Verizon) - Down
  Pasadena CA, United States (Mindspring) - Down
  Mountain View CA, United States (Google) - Up
  Vancouver BC, Canada (Radiant) - Down
  Recife, Brazil (Hotlink Internet) - Down
  London, United Kingdom (Legend Comm) - Down
  Lille, France (Nordnet) - Down
  Merzig Saarland, Germany (Probe Networks) - Up
  Milan, Italy (BT Italy) - Down
  Ankara, Turkey (TTNET) - Down
  St. Petersburg, Russia (Uni of Tech & Design) - Up
  Karachi, Pakistan (Supernet) - Down
  Delhi, India (Tikona Infinet) - Down	
  Bangkok, Thailand (TOT) - Down	
  Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (Clear-Comm) - Down
  Beijing, China (China Unicom) - Down
  Sydney NSW, Australia (Exetel) - Down
  Collingwood VIC, Australia (Pacific Internet) - Down
  Auckland, New Zealand (ICONZ)  - Down
https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/outlook.com

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

#16

Post by mrmondo »

Yeah, dropping all your NS records from your domain will do that;

  $ dig NS outlook.com

  ; > DiG 9.9.3-rpz2+rl.13214.22-P2-Debian-1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4 > NS outlook.com
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER
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