Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:08:28 +0930 From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au> To: Peter Kok <cckok00@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: security: scan my server Message-ID: <3B4BAE14.9F3D9992@rebel.net.au> References: <3B4BAA48.9C955F1A@hotmail.com>
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Peter! > I discover that http://www.netcraft.com/ > can scan which OS of the web server Find "nmap" on the web (from memory it's from http://insecure.org/), perhaps searching for it at (http://freshmeat.net/). It has a good description of how it discovers what operating system. Furthermore, last time I looked at http://www.netcraft.com/ there was a link describing how it worked... > That mean it is not security! Oh? Security by obscurity doesn't work at all. I should be able to know anything that can be publicly known about your operating system without causing you to be concerned for your security. > How do I avoid its scan? and I don't know. Personally, I wouldn't be too bothered. DSL -- "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return." - David Bowie (Nature Boy from Moulin Rouge) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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