Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:44:11 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Good PR Message-ID: <20030204174344.W63349@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030204154218.20508f-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030204154218.20508f-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > Has anyone figured out what broken in recent FreeBSD releases (am > > running 4.7-STABLE right now) such that Netcraft can't even detect the > > OS anymore, let alone uptimes? > > I'm not sure it's anything broken with FreeBSD; more likely, it's that the > stack changed and the fingerprints haven't been updated. If I had to > guess, it's the current flavor of syncookies/syncache. Not sure how you > report new signatures to Netcraft -- nmap seems to do the right thing. > Any time there are observable changes in a network stack, fingerprinting > techniques are likely to get confused. The thing that I find 'odd' is that Netcraft runs on FreeBSD, no? You'd think they would have noticed by now, eh? :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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