From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 10 17:54:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20379 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20374 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au) Received: (from ncb05@localhost) by banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA14034; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:53:29 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:53:29 +1100 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: jack cc: Johann Visagie , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, jack wrote: : On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Johann Visagie wrote: : : > 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? : : Don't know, but you can do it with /usr/ports/net/queso Queso is rather crap at operating system identification. I recently tried it on one system multiple times, and it reported back the correct os, then it reported the system firewalled, then it reported it as being an unknown os. You couldn't really trust what was reported back. If you're looking for something else that performs os identification, keep an eye out for nmap v2 (currently beta), which does a very nice job of it. Sample output below: Starting nmap V. 2.0-Beta8 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on the.cows.go.moo (x.x.x.x): Port State Protocol Service 23 open tcp telnet 25 open tcp smtp 110 open tcp pop3 111 open tcp sunrpc TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments Difficulty=Worthy challenge; Seq Index=32896 (lower=eas ier) Remote operating system guess: Solaris 2.6 Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11 seconds Cheers, Nick -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au - http://rabble.uow.edu.au/~nick Key fingerprint = DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message