From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 10 06:50:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00760 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:50:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00755 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.8.8/8.7.3) id PAA15498; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:19:30 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981110151930.B15464@cons.org> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:19:30 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: Johann Visagie , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed. References: <3647B9E7.BCC59A27@airnet.net> <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com> <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za>; from Johann Visagie on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 09:55:40AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za>, Johann Visagie wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 at 15:56 SAST, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > For those of you who can't be bothered to guess which site, etc., it's > > http://www.netcraft.co.uk/cgi-bin/Survey/whats. The result reads: > > > > www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.1 on FreeBSD. > > The addition of the operating system check to the Netcraft survey must be a > fairly new thing - I haven't seen that before. > > Now the question, _how_ do they do it? They correctly identify my Web server > as running FreeBSD, and yet I didn't see any connections or attempted > connections, except for the expected "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" query to the httpd. Don't know if that' the same survey, but some time ago there was some such survey that recognized OSes by their TCP behaviour when faced with muliple connections in various stages (can you say "BUG" :-). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message