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Gee, Ash, you could at least have copied the rest of my message! So I can say
how correct I was!
Here's the full text of my original message, for anyone who's interested. And
yes, there are 404 errors there allready. Reports from elsewhere said that it
stopped responding for a while, then came up with 'You have installed
Microsoft Internet Information Server' and then 404's everywhere..
Ross Wheeler (ross@home.albury.net.au) said this:
> Anyone else noticed that it stopped responding to requests, then started
> giving "forbidden" responses, and now it's giving generic microsoft
> unconfigured type responses (like, oh sh!t, the server died and is being
> re-loaded, re-built or whatever)?
> Slow as a wet weekend too....
> I'd think pretty much ANY of the ISPs in Australia could manage a server
> that would take at least 10 times the load without falling over, and
> that's without the massive government funding I bet "election.aec..." got!
> Makes you wonder why we bother voting, doesn't it? :-(
Here's my original post:
-- Start of original Post --
For anyone who's unaware of it, the Australian Electorial Commission have
crawled out of the stone age and are planning on having the Tally results
available on:
Nice. Pretty graphics. I leave the screen and go into IRC for a bit, have a
chat. *blink* *flicker*. Oh god. They've put a meta-refresh tag into it. So
you can leave your browser there and watch the results without having to
actually use your brain and click on 'refresh'.
So, I then think 'Hmm, they're going to need a pretty grunty server farm, or
perhaps a large multiproc Alpha to handle the load... Wonder if they're using
Apache or Netscape..'
[root@robstoy root]# telnet election.aec.gov.au 80
Trying 192.65.91.16...
Connected to election.aec.gov.au.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/2.0
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 05:07:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 03:16:41 GMT
Content-Length: 619
Connection closed by foreign host.
*boggle*
NT. IIS. Not even NT with service pack 3 on it. (which includes IIS3, or 4 or
whatever).
So, here's my prediction for the election.
The web server will die 8-)
--Rob
-- End of original post --
<NTbash> It amazes me that people sit there and say how NT is a wonderful,
stable, webserver platform, when it's so well known in the industry that it's
unstable and unreliable. Then the government (who prove their total IT
cluelessness by wanting to sell of Telstra) prove they're totally useless by
putting a world-first (AFAIK) election on the web, and then running it on NT!
</NTbash>
I feel better now 8-)
--Rob