From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 4 13:44:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0FF37B401; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8982143F85; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780078CA143; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:44:11 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:44:11 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Robert Watson Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "" Subject: Re: Good PR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030204174344.W63349@hub.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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