I am seeing intermittent errors on name resolution.
Here's dig output:
; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> us-cdbr-azure-west-a.cloudapp.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: FORMERR, id: 35760
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; WARNING: EDNS query returned status FORMERR - retry with '+noedns'
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;us-cdbr-azure-west-a.cloudapp.net. IN A
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 168.63.129.16#53(168.63.129.16)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct 20 23:48:55 UTC 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 51
Anyone else?