From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 13 13:23:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B31D37B423; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13ZJ3r-000L23-00; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:23:15 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA99954; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:23:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:23:15 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Mark Ovens Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netcraft 'serve-ey' Message-ID: <20000913212314.F97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000913200807.E97742@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000913202642.G264@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000913202642.G264@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:26:42PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: | On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:08:07PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: | > | > Does anyone know if the netcraft survey is accurate? I recently read | > a comment that alleged it was not, and that (surprise) NT and | > Solaris were the dominant server OSs. | > | | See http://www.netcraft.com/os/accuracy.html for an explanation. One | reason is that what Netcraft's probes see is the firewall in front of | the web server, or a load balancer. So can we lend any credence to the claims of any of the manufacturers of servers that they are dominant in the field? BTW: the source was entmag.com, i forget the article name, but it was easy to find. jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message