Rich Payne said:
>
> I heard on the radio this morning that they were down again, and that it
> was due to a DOS attack on their routers. The same DOS attack that
> effected Yahoo and company over the summer.
>
> So even after other big name companies were hit 6,7,8 months ago, MS still
> didn't put the patch on their routers...a patch that's been availble for a
> year now?
>
> --rdp
Wall Street Journal has a report that MS claims it is DOS attack on their routers
today. Possible, but they're still down. Despite the hype that "scheduled" downtime
doesn't count, and you can't be responsible for everything, from a client standpoint,
down is down. Interestingly, according to Greg Pfister's _In Search of Clusters_, (pg
387 of my copy), a study of IBM S/390's in 1990 showed that 92.0% of all downtime was
planned downtime (system upgrades, backup, database reorganization, etc).
Of course, also remember that these are the guys that say you should trust their
systems with your data under .NET, that they're going to help you achieve
high-availability, etc. And they can't keep their systems up. Form your own opinion.
jeff
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Thought for today: despew /d*-spyoo'/ v.
[Usenet] To automatically generate
a large amount of garbage to the net, esp. from an automated
posting program gone wild. See ARMM.
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