this is funny, if true

frieza · 09-27-2003, 10:23 PM

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/....microsoft.com
what do you think? not even using their on OS for running their web page? now that's a statement i don't think they'd want to be making especially nowadays

shellcode · 09-27-2003, 10:51 PM

IIS does not run on linux, only windows, so that combination is impossible.

frieza · 09-27-2003, 11:08 PM

the release version, but microsoft does have teh source code, so who's to say they didn't make a linux build for their own private use

Capt_Caveman · 09-27-2003, 11:13 PM

It has to do with Microsoft using Akamai to act as a cache for their website, as a result of the recent viral dDOS attacks against their servers.

From the webcraft FAQ:

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Webservers that operate behind a caching system, load balancer, reverse proxy server or a firewall may sometimes report the operating system of the intermediate machine. Hence reports of 'Microsoft/IIS on Linux' may indicate that either the web server is behind a Linux server that is acting as a reverse proxy, or has configured the Akamai caching system such that the first request to the site goes to one of Akamai's servers [which run Linux], or as in the case of www.walmart.com has been configured to send a misleading signature.

You'd have to be a crackhead to even try and put IIS on Linux

frieza · 09-27-2003, 11:31 PM

i thought microsoft was a bunch of crackheads

fatgod · 09-28-2003, 05:17 AM

I thiink it's funny. It's doesn't look good for them to have their interface to the computing world have it's traffic routing through a linux box, their main OS competition.

Did they ever manage to move Hotmail off of BSD?

Tesl · 09-28-2003, 05:33 AM

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Originally posted by fatgod

Did they ever manage to move Hotmail off of BSD?

i read a while back that they never managed it

that was a few months back though, so i guess its possible they kept trying

Gill Bates · 09-29-2003, 06:08 PM

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Originally posted by Tesl
i read a while back that they never managed it that was a few months back though, so i guess its possible they kept trying

gooo BSD

dont they also have 3 times more windows machines now?

frieza · 09-29-2003, 06:11 PM

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/...ww.hotmail.com

finegan · 09-29-2003, 06:15 PM

Okay, this has cropped up once before.

Microsoft hired Akamai to work webcache for them so that all of these Denial of Service Attack worms wouldn't actually get to hammer the IIS update boxen.

So, really, its a bunch of Linux servers port fowarding.

If I could be bothered I could show you IIS running on OpenBSD...

Cheers,

Finegan