From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 9 23:56:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23000 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22983 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zd8eK-0000Ic-00 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:55:40 +0200 Message-ID: <19981110095540.A1100@cityip.co.za> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:55:40 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed. References: <3647B9E7.BCC59A27@airnet.net> <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 03:56:00PM +1030 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 at 15:56 SAST, Greg Lehey wrote: > > For those of you who can't be bothered to guess which site, etc., it's > http://www.netcraft.co.uk/cgi-bin/Survey/whats. The result reads: > > www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.1 on FreeBSD. The addition of the operating system check to the Netcraft survey must be a fairly new thing - I haven't seen that before. Now the question, _how_ do they do it? They correctly identify my Web server as running FreeBSD, and yet I didn't see any connections or attempted connections, except for the expected "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" query to the httpd. Let me dig deeper... -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message