From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 17 01:50:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA03268 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA03241 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:50:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA23368; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:50:30 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21150; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:50:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA10520; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:14:29 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603170914.KAA10520@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: any easy way to tell the OS of an FTP site? To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:14:28 +0100 (MET) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca" at Mar 17, 96 00:07:28 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > Telnet to them! For example, telnet://ftp.cdrom.com will produce > something like > > FreeBSD wcarchive.cdrom.com > > Login: > > Actually, the alt.2600 faq has a whole section on identifying > which OS xxx site is running based on what type of login prompt it gives > you.A While you are stuck with the builtin banner message on a SysV (what a security-wise stupid idea!), you can easily modify it for BSD, so it's impossible to get the type of machine directly. For example, my own machine says: j@uriah 306% telnet 0 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome at uriah.heep.sax.de! Please login with "msg" if you wanna leave a message to the owner. login: -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)