Re: Microsoft moves update site to LINUX !!!!
From: KREMER Patrick (patrick.kremer_NOS_PAM__at_chello.be)
Date: 08/16/03
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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:45:47 GMT
Let's consider a concrete example. I just tried it out now, 2003-08-16
16:30.
Using the menu option "Windows Update" in the Tools menu of Internet
Explorer 6 on my Win98 (English version) with French (Belgian) regional
settings, I actually launch a request to the URL
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/?IE and get redirected to the URL
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/fr/default.asp
Looking up for v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com on NetCraft:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=windowsupdate.microsoft.com
"The site windowsupdate.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on
Linux."
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
"The site v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on
Linux."
There may be several/many other Windows Update hosts but, as mentionned by
others, at least some appear as running on Linux.
The article in WebWereld mentions that Microsoft has moved its WindowsUpdate
service to a company called Akamai that uses Linux for its hosting
activities and that the WindowsUpdate sites have received new IP addresses.
According to that article, Akamai is a company that has already collaborated
with Microsoft and in which Microsoft has already invested money since 1999.
The article as well as readers' reactions precise that Microsoft do so in
order to protect its network from the Denial-of-Service attack that is
expected to occur today on the WindowsUpdate sites. And Akamai may have the
capacity to resist better that Microsoft itselft, not exactly because of
using another operating system but rather due to the network infrastructure
that is specialized for hosting.
Regards,
Patrick.
"Kevin Nathan" <knathan@project54.com> wrote in message
news:20030815205527.6d93f05b.knathan@project54.com...
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 22:07:44 +0100
> Nick Battle <nick.battle@UNSPAMfreeuk.com> wrote:
>
> > paul cooke wrote:
> > > www.windowsupdate.com
> >
> > Oh yes...
> > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.windowsupdate.com
> >
> > It's now showing IIS 6, hosted by Linux (huh?)
> >
> > --
>
> www.windowsupdate.com
>
> is *not* a valid site. The site is:
>
> windowsupdate.microsoft.com
>
>
> --
> Kevin Nathan (Montana, USA)
> Open standards. Open source. Open minds.
> The command line is the front line.
>
> Linux 2.4.20-4GB-athlon
> 8:54pm up 11 days 0:09, 9 users, load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.04
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