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Uptime/Server Configs: Interesting Tool
Came across the following tool in a Yahoo! forum thread:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/

Just type in the website you want to check out...

Example:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/...gossamer-threads.com

http://uptime.netcraft.com/...te=www.microsoft.com

Some have projected that the change to Linux server on August 15th and August 16th may relate to Microsoft's efforts to abate the Worm attack. Although others have mentioned that M$ is using Linux servers for web caching.

Anyway, interesting tool.
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Cheers,
Me
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Re: [Stealth] Uptime/Server Configs: Interesting Tool In reply to
That's cute... they're running IIS on Linux Smile

Adrian
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Re: [Stealth] Uptime/Server Configs: Interesting Tool In reply to
Hi,

Microsoft showing up as Linux is indeed because of caching:

Code:
[root@ns1 root]# host www.microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com is an alias for www.microsoft.com.edgesuite.net.
www.microsoft.com.edgesuite.net is an alias for a562.cd.akamai.net.
a562.cd.akamai.net has address 66.77.163.45
a562.cd.akamai.net has address 66.77.163.53
[root@ns1 root]#

they use akamai.net to cache content and these servers are run by linux. However, the actual content is still generated by IIS:

Code:
[root@ns1 root]# HEAD microsoft.com | grep Server
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
[root@ns1 root]#

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
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Re: [Alex] Uptime/Server Configs: Interesting Tool In reply to
Yes, but you must give credit of the irony that when MS are in trouble from a worm attack and they need this kind of redundency they fall back on a host of linux clusters to cache their content, do load balancing amongst other things.

- wil
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Re: [Wil] Uptime/Server Configs: Interesting Tool In reply to
I thought the worm attack was against windowsupdate.com which was shut down (you now need to use windowsupdate.microsoft.com)?

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
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Re: [Alex] Uptime/Server Configs: Interesting Tool In reply to
Yeah, and windowsupdate.microsoft.com is the reason behind the move to the mirrored state?

- wil