Linux running IIs?

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth ejbr at comcast.net:
> On Saturday 16 August 2003 03:33 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 August 2003 02:47 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On 08/16/03 11:33, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > > The following Netcraft webpage lists microsoft os and webserver
> > > > history... What's really odd to me is why it shows linux as the
> > > > os and IIs as the server?
> > > >
> > > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com
> > >
> > > That information can be faked on the server side.  I'd say what is
> > > most likely is that they're running linux with apache.
> >
> > That's my take Lonni. What I find most interesting is wondering just
> > how much of micorsoft might actually be running on linux and
> > reporting as w/IIs.
> >
> > Unbelievable.
> 
> Why does 
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?host=www.microsoft.com
> 
> show  
> 
> "The site www.microsoft.com  is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Windows 
> Server 2003."
> 
> but
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com
> 
> same but for that "/" after graph, show 
> 
> "The site www.microsoft.com  is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux"

Because Akamai runs Linux and the Microsoft site(s) run Windows Server
2003?

Kurt
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