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Re: mail.yahoo.com issue
From: "Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:43:45 -0700
What you may be seeing is a typical implementation on large networks where load balancing is performed on the front end connections. In the event that the service is not available from the pool of primary servers, a secondary pool can be made available that returns something along the lines of "line busy, please try again later". Refreshing may or may not reproduce the page since the condition that caused the session to be directed to the lower priority pool may no longer exist at the time the refresh is performed. Basically, for large sites like Yahoo, it's a nicer way of responding than "404 - Page Not Found". -- Greg On or about 2004.08.19 09:49:43 +0000, LaRose, Dallas (dlpassport () s2access com) said:
When visiting http://mail.yahoo.com, occasionally the server will serve up a strange page saying only "do you yahoo?". With a few refreshes (which likely pulls the content from other servers), you will get to the yahoo mail login page. It looks like some of their servers are not returning correct results. I'm not sure whether it's malicious, but it's worth noting.... Source of strange page: <html><head><title>do you yahoo?</title></head> <body> <h1>do you yahoo?</h1> </body></html> <!-- l27.login.scd.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Thu Aug 19 07:38:10 PDT 2004 -->
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