Re: [nznog] microsoft.com

Sorry, it also says on the MS site ... "102 GB of content" then goes on to say "Content created around the clock. Approximately 4 GB of new and updated content published daily". That would mean that every 25 days it would create or update the same amount of content that is currently on the server. Surely this isnt correct? Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Mercer" To: "Juha Saarinen" Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 5:32 PM Subject: RE: [nznog] microsoft.com Microsoft.com is run on IIS6 with Windows Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/inside.htm Akamai provide a content distribution network and dns to get download files closer to end users to improve the overall end user experience by speeding up file downloads. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.microsoft.com reports that MS is running IIS6 on Linux! How is that possible? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#impossible Why do you report impossible operating system/server combinations ? 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. -----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 9:12 a.m. To: Joe Abley Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] microsoft.com Joe Abley wrote:

That power outage knocked out bits of the North Eastern US and most of

South-Western Ontario (including my house -- still no power here, just

laptops and cellphones). To the best of my knowledge most Microsoft-branded services are served out of Redmond, and Hotmail is in the Bay Area somewhere (used to be in an MFN/AboveNet facility in San Jose, but I seem to remember they moved a while ago).

Most large exchange facilities in New York seem to have survived on battery and diesel power, and I don't believe the outage stretched as far as Virginia (where it might have stood a fighting chance of impacting some high concentrations of network operators).

So probably not related to the power outage.

It's also interesting to note that a good chunk of Microsoft's Web content is served from Linux boxes. "Akamaighost" apparently runs on Linux. Here's an example: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=a100.ms.a.microsoft.com Looks like Windows Update arrives to you via Linux as well. -- Juha _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog _______________________________________________ Nznog mailing list Nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog