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Wednesday, February 4, 2004 |
Linux helps Microsoft duck MyDoom: unless something has changed since last August, microsoft.com escaped the MyDoom barrage thanks to Linux. Last August, Microsoft placed all of microsoft.com behind Akamai's caching servers, in part to escape the Blaster worm. If you do a nslookup (I know, it's deprecated) you see:
Chris-Gulkers-Computer:~ gulker$ nslookup www.microsoft.com
Server: 209.220.11.76
Address: 209.220.11.76#53
Non-authoritative answer:
www.microsoft.com canonical name = www.microsoft.akadns.net.
www.microsoft.akadns.net canonical name = www2.microsoft.akadns.net.
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.144.188
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.144.222
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.156.220
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.244.188
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.249.252
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.250.222
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.250.252
Name: www2.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.134.221
whois reports that akadns.net is registered to Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA...
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