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Bing Reported as Running on Linux

Aug 20, 2009   //   by David Bates   //   Uncategorized  //  43 Comments


When Frank Sandoval came to me with a screen shot proposing that Bing.com actually ran on Linux I was skeptical to say the least. No way Microsoft would do that… and why wouldn’t this be main news? I asked of him.

While I don’t know the why’s or what’s it is reported by netcraft.com that the ip addresses used to resolve http://www.bing.com is running on Linux OS. Screenshot, Live Page

Now, in Microsoft’s defense I cannot find another source to be sure as they use p3p in their html headers.
So the Linux OS could be netcraft reporting a load ballancer or who knows what… still you think if Microsoft was using one of it’s own technologies it would proudly be displayed on the home page.

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@Rexm pointed out that StackOverflow had this question posted as well. Link

Another Note: It has been said to me many times that this probably Bing’s CDN and not Bing’s actual webserver. I wrote this post because if you type Bing.com into netcraft it says Linux is the server type. I do agree with many and even said that it is more than likely to be load balancers than bing itself… It turns out that it could be Akamai that has the linux servers than Bing being hosted on Linux servers… It should also be noted that Akamai is the worlds largest CDN, but I still find it interesting that Microsoft would have anything Linux related in their server platform even if it is the CDN.

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Twitter has Denial of Service Attack

Aug 6, 2009   //   by David Bates   //   All Post, Been Hacked, Hacking, Thoughts On  //  No Comments


I was humming along nicely this morning, knee deep in an SQL stored procedure when Frank Sandoval IM’ed me and informed me that both Twitter and Facebook was down. I quickly took a look at both sites to confirm and sure enough he was correct. My instant reaction was that it was probably something like the Twitter Takeover that happened a few days ago on FaceBook. It turns out that the problem was much more sinister than that. Twitter reported on their blog that they where actually combating a denial of service attack. For those of you that don’t know what a denial of service attack is. It is when an attacker floods a url with so much information that the url can no longer recieve normal request.
I would say that Twitter will likeley have this resolved soon. so by the time you get to read this it will probably be safe to hit the tweet this button at the bottom of the post :)

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UPDATE:
Looks like twitter came online about 12:40EST but then went back down shortly thereafter. I hope they can combat the attacker.

UPDATE#2: This story made CNN! Twitter is back online but dog slow.

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