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Re: Whats this shit from micro$oft ?!?! ** THE ANSWER ?? **

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From: Scott Weston
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 00:00
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Hi guys,

Well as Andrew Raphael suggest (altho jokingly, buy on thinking about
it I thought it was a good idea) I posted the info to AusCERT.  They
got back to me today with an explaination from Micro$oft along the
lines that a certain user was (as we firstly thought) just seeing
what HTTP servers people were using.  S/he found the IP addresses
for the machines from nw.com (the guys that do the internet stats)
and then proceeded to ask each one what HTTP server they where running
(thus the hits on peoples firewalls).  As for tide??.microsoft.com
also downloading heaps of graphics, etc, it looks like 131.107.3 is
where micro$oft keep thier 'fleet' of proxy servers.

So it's solved...

Damn I thought we'd stumbled onto something that'd prove to be more
than some person wasting time and money going thru all the IP address
in the world only to find that Apache have the biggest HTTP server
share :)

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the lunatic fringe
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From: Scott Weston <scott.web@tripleg.com.au>
Subject: Re: Whats this shit from micro$oft ?!?! ** THE ANSWER ?? **
Date: 1997/02/27
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