Comments on: A Little Irony? http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/05/11/a-little-irony/ A Democrat Living the 2008 New Hampshire Primary Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:22:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/05/11/a-little-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-7216 Matt Mon, 12 May 2008 16:12:49 +0000 http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/05/11/a-little-irony/#comment-7216 In actuality, it looks like this is one of the things Microsoft has outsourced to Akamai... Basically <i>all</i> of the big guys let Akamai handle their networks, running a CDN, diverse DNS servers, etc. So it's not as if one Windows box somewhere "is" time.windows.com, but rather, it's probably spread across hundreds of POPs that Microsoft doesn't even manage. So yeah, in actuality, it doesn't mean anything. It's just humorous to see time.windows.com getting its time from clock3.redhat.com. In actuality, it looks like this is one of the things Microsoft has outsourced to Akamai… Basically all of the big guys let Akamai handle their networks, running a CDN, diverse DNS servers, etc. So it’s not as if one Windows box somewhere “is” time.windows.com, but rather, it’s probably spread across hundreds of POPs that Microsoft doesn’t even manage.

So yeah, in actuality, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just humorous to see time.windows.com getting its time from clock3.redhat.com.

]]> By: Mr. T http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/05/11/a-little-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-7214 Mr. T Mon, 12 May 2008 13:26:13 +0000 http://blogs.n1zyy.com/n1zyy/2008/05/11/a-little-irony/#comment-7214 Who says Microsoft can't work with open source people? :-) Who says Microsoft can’t work with open source people? :-)

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