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Date:      Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:40:35 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        UCTC Sysadmin <ecsd@transbay.net>, Tom Hunt <tom@berkeleyinternet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crjara@transbay.net
Subject:   Re: Anti-Unix Web site on the fritz? - Tech News - CNET.com
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020403163636.01de4bf0@nospam.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <3CAA64A7.E627AE72@transbay.net>
References:  <3CAA570B.1080904@berkeleyinternet.com>

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At 07:10 PM 4/2/2002, UCTC Sysadmin wrote:

>The honchos commissioned a flunky to put the site up, saying "get it up quickly
>so that it works." Of course, what the flunky did was use FreeBSD, because he
>wanted to go home to watch Star Trek and he knew if he used FreeBSD it would just
>immediately work without complaint and without a raft of 112 security patch fixes
>with an attendent 122 reboots. 

Actually, it was put up on Rapidsite, a hosting company that offers Web
hosting on either Win2K or Unix. The company hired to create the site
must not have specified and Win2K, and got Unix. Netcraft identifie the 
server as running FreeBSD. But Rapidsite mainly uses SGI servers running IRIX,
so the IP stack probe may have produced incorrect results.

--Brett


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