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Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by cclogg »

kristofferR wrote: post #15

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,…

Did something change yet? I'm in Vancouver and have no problem going to outlook.com... that's what is down, right?

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by AsymetricCom »

mrmondo wrote: post #3

I especially loved their status page during the outage: current health CRM No issues Exchange No issues Identity Service No issues Lync No issues Office 365 Portal No issues Office Subscription No issues Rights Management Service No issues SharePoint No issues

aka "works fine from my machine"

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by ne0phyte »

cclogg wrote: post #21
kristofferR wrote: post #15

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,…

Did something change yet? I'm in Vancouver and have no problem going to outlook.com... that's what is down, right?

outlook.com, xbox.com, microsoft.com, live.com, ...

Pretty much all sites are down for me (Germany).

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by cjfont »

hsod wrote: post #22
ThomW wrote: post #18

Who's scroogled now? http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogle... This is so embarrassing.

this has nothing to do with the scroogled campaing though...

Correct, your data being inaccessible isn't the same as being Scroogled (per MS)

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by AsymetricCom »

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

My guess is they changed DNS so they could keep the service up while cutting off an attacker's route.

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

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Post by beat »

While looking at this, I saw some other temporary DNS fails as well, including HN, Google News, and Twitter. But all came back quickly, except for Outlook/Microsoft domains. (I'm in Minnesota)

Re: Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

#30

Post by natevancouver »

cclogg wrote: post #21
kristofferR wrote: post #15

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,…

Did something change yet? I'm in Vancouver and have no problem going to outlook.com... that's what is down, right?

It depends on what your local DNS has cached. Also, I’m finding that 1 out of 5 of their DNS servers is still responding from my location (not too far from Vancouver).
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