[ale] AOL down caused by Linux broadcast storm?

[cricker at nyx.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Chris Ricker wrote:

> > Sounds like yet ANOTHER point in Linux's favor ;-).  Seriously, though,
> > aol is running all their web stuff on Linux boxes (kinda strange--aol's
> > commercially available web server that aol runs on linux is not available
> > for linux--they feel it's too unstable due to its use of threads); perhaps
> > that somehow relates?

Sorry if this was unclear.  My point was that aol is unlikely to come down
too hard on linux, even if linux (through IP masquerading or whatever) was
responsible for its downtime, since aol relies heavily on linux for its
development and web machines.

later,
chris

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