RE: [nznog] microsoft.com

That would be about right.. Logfiles and all..

Surely they don't keep logs more than 7 days :)

-----Original Message----- From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:05 PM To: Nathan Mercer; Juha Saarinen Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: 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

Microsofts downtime on Friday was in fact due to a denial of service attack http://www.microsoft.com/homepage/features/2003/denialofservice.htm Quote : "Overnight, microsoft.com has suffered an outage of a little over an hour. Microsoft have posted to the effect that this was caused by a [presumably non-http] denial of service that is not associated with any known vulnerability in Microsoft's own software. Speculation on Information Week that the outage might be part of a broader attack on internet infrastructure or linked to the start of the Defcon conference seems implausible, as only one other Fortune 100 site has shown an outage in the last 24 hours. Three of the 52 leading hosting providers monitored by Netcraft are showing outages in the last 24 hours, but all three are outside the US." Regards, Jithen -----Original Message----- From: Barry Murphy [mailto:barry(a)unix.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 6:12 p.m. To: Craig Spiers Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] microsoft.com Contentm not logs. They have 31gig or something (stand to be corrected, just read the link), but they currently have 102gig of content. If they creating 4gig of content a day, that would mean in 25 days they would have 204gigs of content. Surely this cannot be correct. Maybe it's just the beers doing the math, but thats the way I understand it. Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Spiers" Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:06 PM Subject: RE: [nznog] microsoft.com 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:

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

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

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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

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