[CLUE-Talk] Microsoft runs linux

[G. Richard Raab]

On Monday 18 August 2003 10:01 pm, Evan Widger wrote:
> G. Richard Raab wrote:

> but it says they're currently running IIS6 on linux, shouldn't it say
> apache? or am i just pain not getting the significance of moving to
> Akatami ?

Akatami is a proxy or cache forwarding mechanism.
Think of squids everywhere.
The data is being filtered through akatamai's cache which runs on top of 
linux.
So if you telnet to www.microsoft.com's dynamic page, you will connect to 
their machine (and be filtered). If you were to connect to a static page, you 
will not even make it to their site. It will all be on the linux box.

You can confirm the linux box by using nmap
and you can kinda of confirm IIS using telnet .
that last trick does not work well due to the faq that good sites appear to 
run IIS on MS but are running Apache on Linux/BSD with mods in place.

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g.r.r.