Last week Microsoft's Web server became unavailable to many users first through router misconfiguration and later through a denial of service attack. Networking experts blamed Microsoft's problems on a network domain which they said featured all four of its domain name . . .
Last week Microsoft's Web server became unavailable to many users first through router misconfiguration and later through a denial of service attack. Networking experts blamed Microsoft's problems on a network domain which they said featured all four of its domain name server on the same network segment - creating a single point of failure. Following the debacle Microsoft has partially offloaded its DNS servers to Akamai Technologies - who tests suggest is running these servers on Linux.

A number of Register readers have written to us pointing out that using nslookup, or other similar tools, its possible to see a number of servers in the akadns.com domain are listed as authoritative DNS servers for Microsoft's domains. Full details of which can be seen below.

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