<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Google Front End.<div><br></div><div>It’s also the “GFE” in the recent NSA slide that’s been bandied about, which is what initially shined some light onto the topic.</div><div><br></div><div>To my understanding it’s a google-specific webserver implementation that does “google magic” to speak to various services on the backend. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ws-gfe/all/all">http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ws-gfe/all/all</a> shows a bit about it, but the term is apparently vanishingly hard to google for.</div><div><br></div><div>— Corey</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 18, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Alex Buie <<a href="mailto:alex.buie@frozenfeline.net">alex.buie@frozenfeline.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Back here in SF.<br><br></div>GFE?<br><br></div>Alex<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Corey Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:corey@sequestered.net" target="_blank">corey@sequestered.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Was down, now seeing it back again in Portland, OR.<br>
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Looks like it was a GFE issue, at a guess.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Corey Quinn<br>
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