[plug] Linux in The West

Fri Mar 19 08:13:08 WST 1999

Gavin Tweedie wrote:
>>> While we're here... http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/influence.html - why
>>> is egg.microsoft.com so high in the list, and why is it running Linux?

> Linux?

> [root at aurora /root]# telnet eggplant.rte.microsoft.com 80
> Trying 131.107.85.208...
> Connected to eggplant.rte.microsoft.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> asdfasdfasfd

> HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:06:58 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 87

> <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is incorrect.
> </body></html>Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root at aurora /root]#

> not linux...more like win2000 by the looks...

Hmmm... perhaps have a word with Netcraft? Or is the actual
egg.microsoft.com a Linux redirector to the IIS webserver? Still wonder
why a testbed like this would score so high... perhaps a "devil's
slashdot" effect...

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