[oclug] Microsoft hit by CodeRed

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Raymond Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:04:38PM -0400, you imagined:
> > That's quite funny.  I know hotmail used to be run on a bunch of bsd
> > boxes, and that they keep trying to move it to NT.  Now that this has
> > happened, its another setback for them, bwhjaha ;)
> True enough, though I can hardly believe they actually manage to keep a
> service this huge running with W2K in the first place!

Who said they still aren't?  All we know is that the front-side HTTP
servers are running Win2k with IIS5.  Perhaps IIS has a proxy mode...  ;)
AFAIK, they were running a Solaris box for DNS (something to go check
out), and any back-end stuff might well be done by sendmail and mysql for
all we know.  :)  But who knows.  The Passport verification stuff is all
M$, and probably runs on Win2k servers (using BSD wouldn't be quite as bad
a way to start .NET as Linux, though).

>
> Raymond
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Taavi Burns
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