Re: [OFFTOPIC] Very amusing DNS...

Dean Gaudet (dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:41:22 -0700 (PDT)

Or, just maybe, they wanted to have a system to do interoperability
testing. It would be very welcome IMNSHO. I'm tired of discovering
protocol flaws between their HTTP clients and Apache for them. There's
any number of valid reasons they would run a linux box, and none of them
have anything to do with windows being too unstable.

Dean

On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote:

>
> A couple of days ago, they had a web page up at
> http://linus.microsoft.com. Guess what it was -- The default page for
> Apache on a RedHat installation!
>
> hmm... I guess microsoft finally decided that windows was too unstable to
> run. Or, maybe they just wanted to steal some of the source code!
>
> -Paul
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Spirilis wrote:
>
> > Hmm...
> >
> > <root>:/root# nslookup 131.107.74.11 198.6.1.1
> > Server: cache00.ns.uu.net
> > Address: 198.6.1.1
> >
> > Name: linus.microsoft.com
> > Address: 131.107.74.11
> >
> >
> > <root>:/root# nslookup linus.microsoft.com 198.6.1.1
> > Server: cache00.ns.uu.net
> > Address: 198.6.1.1
> >
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > Name: linus.microsoft.com
> > Address: 131.107.74.11
> >
> > I wonder what MS uses that host for? ;-)
> >
> >
> >
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