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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by orivej on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:56PM (#12687459)
For those looking for PDF, it is at the author's site (http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/): http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/papers/only-just-wo...
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by mhandley on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:44PM (#12688772)
As an aside, our server may well be the oldest still running on the Internet:

  telnet www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk 80
  Trying 128.16.6.8...
  Connected to haig.cs.ucl.ac.uk.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  HEAD /staff/M.Handley/ HTTP/1,0

  HTTP/1.0 200 Document follows  
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  Server: CERN/3.0
  ...
Proudly running CERN 3.0 on a Sparc 20 continuously since ~1993.
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by nickpsecurity on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:01PM (#12689712)
Continuously as in No Downtime or as in you've just been using the same machine that long?
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by imglorp on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:36PM (#12689842)
That's... gonna depend on how popular a certain HN post becomes...
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by nickpsecurity on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:55PM (#12690338)
Good answer. The Slashdot Effect delivered by its best alternative. ;)
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by Grangar on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:58AM (#12693433)
Welp, here we go.
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by mhandley on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:35AM (#12691231)
It has definitely been down occasionally - the odd power outage guarantees that in 23 years, and it doesn't really merit a UPS. Also I think it's on its second Sparc box, but our sysadmin has a pile of old spares. And it had to be patched to be Y2K-compliant, as the CERN 3.0 httpd was last updated in something like 1994. It is definitely slow compared to modern systems, so it's no longer our main webserver, but it still handles the occasional HN load spike reasonably well.
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Re:Why the internet only just works (2006) by nickpsecurity on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:18AM (#12693635)
That's along lines I was thinking. Haha.
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