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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:57:17 -0600
From:      Anti <fearow@attbi.com>
To:        Bryan Vyhmeister <bsd@hub3.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netcraft Info for abcnews.go.com and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030324205717.7f9d25f3.fearow@attbi.com>
In-Reply-To: <7CA589D6-5E6C-11D7-A087-000393D5E5DA@hub3.net>
References:  <7CA589D6-5E6C-11D7-A087-000393D5E5DA@hub3.net>

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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:50:07 -0800
Bryan Vyhmeister <bsd@hub3.net> wrote:

> In looking up some sites on Netcraft, I discovered a bit of an anomaly. 
> Check it out at:
> 
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?site=abcnews.go.com
> 
> How does this kind of anomaly happen? Obviously we have some sort of 
> clustered set of servers that are serving up abcnews.go.com using 
> Microsoft-IIS/5.0. It appears that they are running Windows 2000. Where 
> did the FreeBSD OS fingerprint come from? How does Windows 2000 look 
> like FreeBSD? Obviously Microsoft-IIS/5.0 does not run on FreeBSD. 
> Could it be that FreeBSD is acting as a firewall or load-distributor? 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Bryan


maybe it's just not very accurate? it says hp-ux for all my freebsd
servers...

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