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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/): http://www0.cs.ucl.

by orivej 10y ago

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/): http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/papers/only-just-works.pdf http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/papers/only-just-wo...

mhandley 10y ago
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.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  Continuously as in No Downtime or as in you've just been using the same machine that long?
  - imglorp 10y ago
    That's... gonna depend on how popular a certain HN post becomes...
    - nickpsecurity 10y ago
      Good answer. The Slashdot Effect delivered by its best alternative. ;)
    - Grangar 10y ago
      Welp, here we go.
  - mhandley 10y ago
    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.
    - nickpsecurity 10y ago
      That's along lines I was thinking. Haha.