From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 12:08:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279731065672 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:08:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E998FC23 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:08:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so233309ywe.13 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:08:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=+q65uG3uCeKn3mDuMkXx842zOjz1W9WmQUEpBd0Rsq0=; b=txbpS/9daUx7j65soIsEPQ4xluTQJy6MrBzq0A9LofDqS4XJtkN/hSl7Skyvx2CCe6 fUtAY4vq2t27QeAV1OZnIWowidb5MsfCJjLAYnZFKpyYVKCF76nMDfcU8cKDRGLZ8WQC YsqmrfVbnxEIgV4y1szxDnEiF6E/7pJZgADMg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=XlJ60VlSW03uzTOWpb8bvXqThPCLJDCHPrdlOJrIsqHNJtWzWIwfUojN082vcSFbDF i4iKQ0V64MROocpHp8Mcp3gk/IdGEnGmiklNsjdeCftegr9RXe1hGrm9QtcZJM078feV kr04Q5da8GbgSHUpeOsu3hNlswfLaS6Mwat3w= Received: by 10.150.97.19 with SMTP id u19mr1119442ybb.156.1217506109127; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo-laptop.localnet ( [124.157.244.26]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a38sm4452787rnc.11.2008.07.31.05.08.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:08:26 -0700 (PDT) From: OutBackDingo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:19 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (Linux/2.6.24-19-generic; KDE/4.1.0; i686; ; ) References: <4891256E.6090903@yahoo.de> <20080731075515.c0f01099.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20080731075515.c0f01099.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807311908.19691.outbackdingo@gmail.com> Cc: Markus Mueller , Bill Moran Subject: Re: own OS-Name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:08:30 -0000 Take this advice very seriously from someone who has already done this effectively, you wount be able to accomplish this yourself, it will take months, and more then just a few good c coders to accomplish. its really a bad idea for what little you gain versus the amount of work involved. On Thursday 31 July 2008 18:55:15 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Markus Mueller : > > I will create my own *BSD OS based on FreeBSD. > > How can I change the Name of this OS ? > > I mean, that in Logfiles, for example, of servers, which I connect by > > sufing in the web and in application which locate the OS instead > > "FREEBSD" an another OS-Name "MyOS-Name" will be displayed. > > In addition to Giorgos' answer, there are tools, such as nmap, that > identify the OS by it's behaviour and not by any string that appears > anywhere. In order to convince those tools that your OS is not > FreeBSD, you'll have to alter the IP code to cause it to behave in > a manner that is unique. Good luck doing _that_ without breaking > things.