Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

At 02:08 AM 1/25/2001 -0600, poptix () sleepybox poptix net wrote:
>
>www.microsoft.com is already a CNAME for www.microsoft.akadns.net, aka,
>Akamai =)  (Didn't I hear microsoft touting it's wonderful clustering/load
>balancing features in W2k?)

<simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>
Please note that if you cannot get a reply from the authoritative name 
server for [domain].[foo], you cannot be given the CNAME for a host.
</simple statement of fact which everyone prolly already knows>

(No comment on the reliability of Windows is intended.)


>            -poptix

TTFN,
patrick