The Windows Azure Domain Name System (DNS) is moving to a new globally distributed infrastructure, which will increase performance and improve reliability of DNS resolution. In particular, users who access Windows Azure applications from outside the United States will see a decrease in the time it takes to resolve the applications' DNS names. This change will take effect on October 5th, at midnight UTC. Customers don't need to do anything to get these improvements, and there will be no service interru...
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