Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:51:02 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> 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: <199909010251.TAA18601@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:42 PDT." <00e001bef41d$cd2167a0$0200000a@danco.home>
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>>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. > >The problem at Hotmail was apparently a result of "sloppy programming at the >front end of the service." See the story at >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2323960,00.html > >>Now I would like to know more about security of freebsd. > >See http://www.freebsd.org/security/ FreeBSD continues to be in use on about 2000 server machines at Hotmail. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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