Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-12 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:26:07PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:41:13PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating > > their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever i

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:23:55PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:07:51PM -0700, user list wrote: > > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange > > servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well > > known? we ar

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:11:04PM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > Try checking out the different servers at netcraft's what's that server > running (now includes uptime stats). > > http://www.netcraft.com/whats > > Just checking www.hotmail.com would not be sufficient in this case. If you >

RE: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Jason Mogavero
runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 Guess they got tired of that egg on their face. Jason -Original Message- From: Nicole Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:11 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers Try checking out the diff

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
This is correct. They used to run on FreeBSD. When MS bought hotmail they tried switching them to NT4, but it fell over horribly under the load. Apparently Win2k is actually an improvement over NT4, as according to recent Netcraft surveys they were actually able to switch from BSD to 2k. Unfort

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Try checking out the different servers at netcraft's what's that server running (now includes uptime stats). http://www.netcraft.com/whats Just checking www.hotmail.com would not be sufficient in this case. If you have a hotmail account, check the addresses it actually sends you to to read mail.

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Robert Waldner
As far as I remember they run on *BSD-boxes mostly but are migrating their stuff to Win??(Enterforaprize|Dataloss)Server or whatever it´s called. Search on slashdot&friends along the last security-debacles there, that´s where I got it. cheers, &rw On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:07:51 MST, user list

Re: WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:07:51PM -0700, user list wrote: > I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange > servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well > known? we are fighting a guerrilla action over this where I work. I'm on a > uni

WOT: Hotmail mail servers

2001-01-11 Thread user list
I have just heard a rumor that the hoemail mail servers are not MS exchange servers but, rather, linux mail servers. Is this true? If so, is this well known? we are fighting a guerrilla action over this where I work. I'm on a unix server that never has problems while the rest of the institution