From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 18 04:55:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA19133 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 04:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goffer.research.megasoft.com (gw.research.megasoft.com [206.230.35.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA19128 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 04:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goffette.research.megasoft.com (goffette.research.megasoft.com [192.168.1.2]) by goffer.research.megasoft.com (8.7.5/8.7.3-cmcurtin) with SMTP id HAA29437; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 07:50:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by goffette.research.megasoft.com (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id HAA10004; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 07:50:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 07:50:22 -0400 Message-Id: <199608181150.HAA10004@goffette.research.megasoft.com> From: C Matthew Curtin Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org To: webmaster@microsoft.com Subject: Microsoft's overwhelmed FTP servers Reply-To: cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com X-Attribution: mattC Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk An excerpt from www.microsoft.com: Record Demand for Internet Explorer Overwhelms Download Servers Microsoft is increasing its download capacity to meet the unprecedented demand for Internet Explorer 3.0. Some 32,000 users registered the browser from midnight to 6 a.m. Tuesday, and some people reported slow download times or error messages. If you couldn't get through, try again! Let's see... that's about 5300 or so requests per hour, assuming a steady stream of them. Hmm. I notice the IE download page shows five servers in Redmond offering IE. So we're talking ~1100 requests per hour per machine. And *that* is overwhelming demand?! Hahahaahahah!! ftp.cdrom.com does that many *at the same time.* Maybe you folks at Microsoft should save yourself a lot of headaches and upgrade to an operating system that can actually deal with that kind of load: FreeBSD. Let's see... more stable, more powerful, and kicks the crap out of NT for networking. And it's free. Just remember to display the "Powered by FreeBSD" logo after your upgrades. Have a nice day! -- C Matthew Curtin MEGASOFT, LLC Director, Security Architecture I speak only for myself. Don't whine to anyone but me about anything I say. Hacker Security Firewall Crypto PGP Privacy Unix Perl Java Internet Intranet cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/