[outages] Email to Microsoft Office 365 users

[Frank Bulk]

Our last queue check reported DNS failures looking up <domain
name>.mail.protection.outlook.com for 11 such domains.

Just picking one, staples.com: 

root at nagios:/tmp# dig MX staples.com +short
10 staples-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
root at nagios:/tmp# dig  staples-com.mail.protection.outlook.com

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> staples-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
root at nagios:/tmp#
root at nagios:/tmp# host MX staples.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
root at nagios:/tmp#


Anyone else seeing this?  A colleague says that O365 is having issues and
will be forwarding me some details.

Regards,

Frank Bulk