Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 09:34:03 -0500 From: Ford Prefect <fordp@guide.chi.il.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hotmail Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990902093403.00ed063c@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <19990901215447.C4481@home.griz.net> References: <199909010251.TAA18601@implode.root.com> <00e001bef41d$cd2167a0$0200000a@danco.home> <199909010251.TAA18601@implode.root.com>
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I'm not speaking from any firm position here but I was unde the impression that at the time when MS aquired Hotmail it was running Solaris, which was replaced NT, which failed and they returned to Solaris. As for the security issue, I beleive that had to do with Microsofts PassPort system, and not the operatings system itself (FreeBSD, Solaris, NT or whatever) At 09:54 PM 9/1/99 -0600, you wrote: >On Tuesday August 31, 1999, David Greenman <dg@root.com> > had this to say about "Re: hotmail": > >> >>I heard from news that hotmail was broken and the service was forced to >> >>stop about two hours. As i know hotmail is operated by freebsd. Is it >> >>about the security of freebsd? >> > >> >Hotmail used to run FreeBSD, but I believe Microsoft has replaced everything >> >with WinNT. >> > >> >> FreeBSD continues to be in use on about 2000 server machines at Hotmail. >> >> -DG > >I would think a simple nmap probe would flush out the FreeBSD servers >from the NT servers...but the aforementioned bug was not an OS problem in >any case 8-) > > >-- >John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions >Systems Administration http://www.nterprise.net > & Network Engineering 8707 E. Florida Ave #814 Denver, CO 80231 >I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new >one every day. > -- Heine > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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