From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 19: 1:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 011DB14E89 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:01:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max1-58.gbis.net [207.228.60.122]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA13249; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA27635; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <00e001bef41d$cd2167a0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Peter Kok" , Subject: Re: hotmail Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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. The problem at Hotmail was apparently a result of "sloppy programming at the front end of the service." See the story at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2323960,00.html >Now I would like to know more about security of freebsd. See http://www.freebsd.org/security/ --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message