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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:28:45 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>
Cc:        Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hotmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908312326170.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <00e001bef41d$cd2167a0$0200000a@danco.home>

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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Dan O'Connor wrote:

> >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.

Please do more research before posting misinformation.

a simple telnet could have supplied valid information:

~/w/www/en % telnet www.hotmail.com 80
Trying 216.33.151.7...
Connected to www.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /dkjfnsjnfsdjf HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 06:10:20 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html


-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer
   - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net]



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