Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:39:16 +0100 From: Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk> To: Brandon S.Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <20010924013916.5C57937B411@hub.freebsd.org>
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24/09/2001 01:28:12, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: >On Sunday, September 23, 2001 17:20:56 -0700, "Chad R. Larson" ><chad@DCFinc.com> wrote: >+----- >| Interesting. There's been a popular rumour that Microsoft availed >| itself to the liberal BSD license, and availed itself to the FreeBSD >| protocol stack. The rumor further said that if you pointed an OS >| fingerprinting program at a Win2k box it would be identified as >| FreeBSD. >+--->8 >At a guess, those rumors were founded on probes of microsoft.com and >hotmail.com. Microsoft has acknowledged that it has used FreeBSD for >firewalling, I believe, so it's likely just a case of mistaken identity. I definirely heard such rumours long before I heard of win2k, in fact I'm pretty sure I heard of them pre-win98. But the rumours did also include the code being deeply bastardised, which would be necessary to explain why the windoze stack is such a fetid bag of bollocks Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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