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
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no longer resolve to machines on Microsoft's own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux.
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
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is still running on Linux, although microsoft.com is reported as running on Windows Server 2003.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said she'd look into the report and get back with a response. An Akamai spokeswoman declined to comment, except to confirm that Microsoft is a customer.
Microsoft using a Linux service is ironic, given that Microsoft has identified Linux as its biggest competitor. In a conference call with analysts last month, company CFO John Connors ranked Linux as the #2 risk faced by the company. The #1 risk was the general economic environment, Connors said. Nearly one in five small and mid-sized businesses are using Linux on the desktop.
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This story courtesy of
Internetweek.