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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:51:45 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us>, Peter Kok <cckok00@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hotmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909010949540.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011252130.8660-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> 
> Oops, ignore last...I thought I was missing something and I was right...I
> missed the 'I believe Microsoft has replaced...' part of his email, to
> which  you were anwering...

You are correct. :)

The way I know that it is FreeBSD specifically is that I know several 
Hotmail sysadmins and have met quite a few face to face. 

-Alfred

>  On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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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> 
> Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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