[lug] Microsoft uses Bluefish [part 2: the real story].

Calvin Dodge caldodge at fpcc.net
Sat Apr 14 10:11:34 MDT 2001


John Starkey wrote:
> 
> Boy do I hate mornings. Control-something sends messages in NN iMac.
> Beware. Sorry about the previous.
> 
> Anyway. I caught Microsoft d-loading Bluefish from my mirror this
> morning:
>
> Apr 14 04:29:02 advancecreations xxx: advancecreations
> (130.67.212.12[130.67.212.12]) - USER anonymous at ftp.microsoft.com
> (Login failed): Can't find user.

Sorry to disappoint you - that's simply the password sent by the FTP user. I've
seen that a bunch of times on my Mom's FTP logs.

A check on that IP address reveals the name ti10a11-0012.dialup.online.no, and
I'm pretty sure that's not a Microsoft site.

Calvin

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