SRX1015374076ID - MSN Hotmail:I have a comment about Ho:Other

Thank you for writing to MSN Hotmail Technical Support.
My name is Lory and I am responding to your issue regarding the
Security Vulnerability Report you sent on May 29, 2006.
I understand the importance of this matter to you and I apologize for
the inconvenience this may have caused you.
I appreciate your taking the time to send us this valuable information.
I have forwarded your feedback to our product development team for
further investigation about your report. I suggest that you wait for
the response from the Microsoft Security Research Centre as they are
the team that can best handle your report.
You are a valuable customer to MSN and we are glad to give you
consistent and effective service.
Thank you for using MSN Hotmail.
Sincerely,
Lory A.
MSN Hotmail Technical Support



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Hello
This is a follow up to the Security Vulnerability Report I sent on May
29/06 regarding the brand of load balancer that Microsoft uses on MSN
services. The Netcraft "Whats that site running?" feature has
identified F5 Big-IP as being the operating system for Hotmail. As I
indicated in the vulnerability report, it is actually a load balancer.
On large web pages, load balancers don't usually show up.
Following, is a list of MSN websites that ID themselves to Netcraft
as having the F5 Big-IP operating:
15 by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com 168 216 216 F5 Big-IP
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
17 by106fd.bay106.hotmail.msn.com 151 195 195 F5 Big-IP
Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Also, here is the direct link to the Netcraft site listing servers and
operating systems corresponding to MSN, including configuration data:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=MICROSOFT-1BLK, 65.52.0.0,65.55.255.255
According to the reply I received from Microsoft Security Research
Centre, they said they would forward the information I sent to the MSN
Group, however, I noticed that F5 Big-IP was showing up on the Netcraft
list as being attached to Hotmail servers such as I mentioned above.
If you require

If this is supposed to be a correct configuration for your network, my
apologies. If not, I am just letting you know.
Thanks


Frequency of the issue:
Intermittent
How do you access your Hotmail account?
Web Interface *www.hotmail.com*
Who is your ISP?
Other
Type of Internet connection:
56K Modem
Have you recently installed any new software (if you enter yes please
add more comments in the text box above)?
No
Which operating system are you using?Windows XP: Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
Which browser are you using: IE6
Location: en-us - English (United States)
Type of Support: E-mail Support