Someone pointed out that MySpace is one of the highest traffic sites on the internet using Microsoft IIS. The IIS server error pages served up from time to time always make me scratch my head and wonder. So you’ll pardon my suprise today when I accidentally left off the “www” on the url, and got this:

Update: It has been pointed out to me that Myspace has not, in fact, switched to Ubuntu, Apache, and Python. Instead, looking up myspace.com returns localhost sometimes (www.myspace.com doesn’t):

myspace.com has address 216.178.32.51
myspace.com has address 216.178.32.50
myspace.com has address 216.178.32.49
myspace.com has address 216.178.32.48
myspace.com has address 127.0.0.1

And the TTL on it is 21 hours, 13 minutes, and 52 seconds, or, in other words, 76,432 seconds.

myspace.com.            76432   IN      A       127.0.0.

What does this mean? It means that one out of every five times your computer asks the internet where myspace.com is, the internet will tell you that myspace.com is your computer. And your computer is supposed to remember that incorrect response for 21 hours, 13 minutes, and 52 seconds before asking again. Good job, guys.