[outages] technet.microsoft.com

[Cord MacLeod]

On Jun 11, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Ross Halliday wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org]
> On Behalf Of Hugo Salgado
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:35 AM
> To: outages at outages.org
> Subject: [outages] technet.microsoft.com
>
>> It seems that http://technet.microsoft.com is unreachable from
>> several places. Here it resolves to technet.microsoft.akadns.net
>> (64.4.11.252), but doesn't answer ping's nor telnet to port 80.
>>
>> I've tried using several looking glasses, but only
>> "downforeveryoneorjustme.com" seems to reach it.
>
> HTTP looking glass or pings? I have yet to see a Microsoft server that
> responds to ICMP. Only reliable method I've found is something like
> tcptraceroute.


$ ping netops.hotmail.com
PING netops.hotmail.com (216.32.183.201): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.32.183.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=19.860 ms
64 bytes from 216.32.183.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=33.384 ms
64 bytes from 216.32.183.201: icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=20.344 ms