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greg elkin ([personal profile] beermat) wrote2003-09-10 08:27 pm
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who moved microsoft?

"C:\Program Files\KB824146Scan>ping www.microsoft.com

Pinging a562.cd.akamai.net [213.161.66.154] with 32 bytes of data:"

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[identity profile] fluffydave.livejournal.com 2003-09-10 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Microsoft don't respond to pings, because people seem to think its funny to ping them lots :)~ Wonder why that is!

[identity profile] etriganuk.livejournal.com 2003-09-10 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It was front-ended by Akamai in the run-up to the Blaster worm. They needed the distributed nature of Akamai to cover the potential DoS vector.

[identity profile] poggs.livejournal.com 2003-09-10 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Akami are on to a real winner - their technology rocks.

[identity profile] hazeii.livejournal.com 2003-09-10 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
MS first used Akamai when they dropped off the net for a couple of days, because they screwed up their name servers. Since then Akamai seem to carrying more and more of their traffic, and apparently a lot of MS web servers are mistakenly taken to be running Apache/Linux because the client is actually talking to an Akamai server rathern than a Microsoft one.

At least MS realise they need professional help. Next up, though, they'll start boasting about the reliability of their web infrastructure....
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