From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 19:54:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EA214E7B for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA18601; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909010251.TAA18601@implode.root.com> To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: "Peter Kok" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hotmail In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:42 PDT." <00e001bef41d$cd2167a0$0200000a@danco.home> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:51:02 -0700 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/ FreeBSD continues to be in use on about 2000 server machines at Hotmail. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message