Re: [OFFTOPIC] Very amusing DNS...

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:02:25 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:

> Or, just maybe, they wanted to have a system to do interoperability
> testing. It would be very welcome IMNSHO. I'm tired of discovering
> protocol flaws between their HTTP clients and Apache for them. There's
> any number of valid reasons they would run a linux box, and none of them
> have anything to do with windows being too unstable.

You mean like how they've failed miserably to move hotmail's services over
to NT? They use FreeBSD for the web server, and in runs Apache. The mail
servers are solaris, because of kernel threading I hear.

Case In Point - One for the home team

-Shawn

> Dean
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > A couple of days ago, they had a web page up at
> > http://linus.microsoft.com. Guess what it was -- The default page for
> > Apache on a RedHat installation!
> >
> > hmm... I guess microsoft finally decided that windows was too unstable to
> > run. Or, maybe they just wanted to steal some of the source code!
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Spirilis wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm...
> > >
> > > <root>:/root# nslookup 131.107.74.11 198.6.1.1
> > > Server: cache00.ns.uu.net
> > > Address: 198.6.1.1
> > >
> > > Name: linus.microsoft.com
> > > Address: 131.107.74.11
> > >
> > >
> > > <root>:/root# nslookup linus.microsoft.com 198.6.1.1
> > > Server: cache00.ns.uu.net
> > > Address: 198.6.1.1
> > >
> > > Non-authoritative answer:
> > > Name: linus.microsoft.com
> > > Address: 131.107.74.11
> > >
> > > I wonder what MS uses that host for? ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
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