Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:53:29 +1100 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9811111237350.12923-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811101233410.19248-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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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
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