“Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux is not fit for the enterprise. But Microsoft itself is using Linux to help protect its servers against denial-of-service attacks. According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS settings on Friday so that requests for [url=http://www.microsoft.com]http://www.microsoft.com[/url] no longer resolve to machines on Microsoft’s own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux,” TechWeb reports.
“Akamai runs a service to help boost Web site performance by caching copies of Web sites on many servers in many locations. Akamai can help defend against denial-of-service attacks by spreading the attack among many servers. Just as a distributed denial-of-service attack enlists large numbers of systems to attack a single server, Akamai presents a distributed defense against denial-of-service attacks. As of this writing, Netcraft reports that [url=http://www.microsoft.com]http://www.microsoft.com[/url] is still running on Linux, although microsoft.com is reported as running on Windows Server 2003,” reports TechWeb.
“In tomorrow’s news: McDonald’s executive found eating at Burger King,” TechWeb reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: Does Microsoft still have any feet left to shoot? Perhaps they can find some stuck in their mouths.
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