On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Nathan Mercer wrote:
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.
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