On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Matt Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that time.windows.com (207.46.232.182) is currently > reporting that it's getting its time from clock3.redhat.com? > > (I've got a screenshot up at > http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/05/11/a-little-irony/ in case they "fix" > this.) > > Just thought someone else might find this as amusing as I did... >
It's now showing dev1-c.nym009.internap.net [66.79.152.35] as the source, at least from my vantage network vantage point in Chicago, USA. Microsoft "outsources" time.windows.com to Akamai's content distribution network. This makes sense, since they already outsource a lot of DNS and image content distribution to Akamai. Akamai uses Linux and other FOSS extensively. Even Microsoft has limited bandwidth resources. Incidentally, this relationship between Akamai and Microsoft is the reason for the oft-repeated "Microsoft uses Linux for its own web servers!" myth. There is, in actuality, nothing special about Linux that makes it suitable for Akamai's network, other than its low acquisition cost. All of the "secret sauce" Akamai uses to move bits about and direct users to content cache servers near them is, in fact, *very proprietary* Akamai code. They could have built that code to run on FreeBSD, AIX, OSX, or even Windows. -- RPM _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
