Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:28:12 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <126240000.1001291290@vpn45.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010923172056.A19684@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <001201c143de$f4eeb590$0a01a8c0@den2> <200109230349.f8N3n5746094@harmony.village.org> <000901c143f0$11990ea0$9865fea9@longhill1.md.home.com> <20010923172056.A19684@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Sunday, September 23, 2001 17:20:56 -0700, "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> wrote: +----- | Interesting. There's been a popular rumour that Microsoft availed | itself to the liberal BSD license, and availed itself to the FreeBSD | protocol stack. The rumor further said that if you pointed an OS | fingerprinting program at a Win2k box it would be identified as | FreeBSD. +--->8 nmap has never exhibited any tendency to confuse Win2k and FreeBSD, in my experience; and Win2k has always had those "charming" MS-TCP/IP idiosyncracies to set it apart. At a guess, those rumors were founded on probes of microsoft.com and hotmail.com. Microsoft has acknowledged that it has used FreeBSD for firewalling, I believe, so it's likely just a case of mistaken identity. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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