by Donn Mille » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
Donn
by Donn Mille » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
http://x10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=428872365&search=thread&threaded...
How can you tell what OS web sites are running? Can you do it with dig
or traceroute?
Donn
by DrBoo » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
> I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
> FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
> truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
> using any other OS other than their own.
> Donn
-j
by Josef Moeller » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
> > I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
> > FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
> > truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
> > using any other OS other than their own.
> > Donn
> Sounds bogus to me. An easy way to see what the _web_ server is running
> is to use Netcraft's site. www.netcraft.com ... other tools will let you
> do the same thing. I use Netcat for stuff like that.
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by DrBoo » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
[snip]
This has been beaten to death in here, but here it is again forQuote:> It's M$'s www.hotmail.com that's using some UN*X derivate. AFAIK it's
> Solaris, but it could just as well be Linux or FreeBSD. One thing's for
> sure, it's not NT!
> Note: Although it's a M$ site, it doesn't tell you what OS it's running
> B-{)
Front-end http = FreeBSD
Actual mail = Solaris
Other stuff = NT
by pe.. » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
>> > I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
>> > FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
>> > truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
>> > using any other OS other than their own.
>> > Donn
>> Sounds bogus to me. An easy way to see what the _web_ server is running
>> is to use Netcraft's site. www.netcraft.com ... other tools will let you
>> do the same thing. I use Netcat for stuff like that.
> It's M$'s www.hotmail.com that's using some UN*X derivate. AFAIK it's
> Solaris, but it could just as well be Linux or FreeBSD. One thing's for
> sure, it's not NT!
> Note: Although it's a M$ site, it doesn't tell you what OS it's running
> B-{)
peter h
by (John Auld » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
>Donn
I don't know if this method is totally reliable as a way to identify
the web site OS because the route to the web server may transparently
pass though a proxy server. So, you might get the OS type of the proxy
rather than the web server. (This is just a thought and not a
statement of fact).
John Auld
by Joe Abl » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
>> I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
>> FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
>> truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
>> using any other OS other than their own.
>> Donn
>Sounds bogus to me. An easy way to see what the _web_ server is running
>is to use Netcraft's site. www.netcraft.com ... other tools will let you
>do the same thing. I use Netcat for stuff like that.
gives correct results, occasionally :)
by pe.. » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
$ telnet www.hotmail.com 80
Trying 207.82.252.251...
Connected to www.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
{you type a carriage return here}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:33:07 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2.1
Last-Modified: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:32:49 GMT
ETag: "27655-16a7-3676ffb1"
Content-Length: 5799
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
<html>
<head>
<title>Hotmail - The World's FREE Web-Based Email</title>
Snip snip snip.
You *may* be able to determine the type of host using nslookup. ForQuote:> Note: Although it's a M$ site, it doesn't tell you what OS it's running
> B-{)
$ nslookup
Server: ns1.mindspring.comQuote:> set type=hinfo
> www.widgetworks.com
www.widgetworks.com canonical name = homer.widgetworks.com
homer.widgetworks.com CPU = SPARC2 OS = SOLARIS
Snip...
The information provided by nslookup is merely the info in the DNS
database, which may or may not be correct. Homer.widgetworks.com
hasn't been a Sparc 2 for several years now.
It is true that many of the microsoft servers *did* return Solaris in
the OS field at one point (this is perhaps the origin of the rumor)
but they have since been "cleansed."
Peter Johansson
by Robert Yode » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
> >> I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
> >> FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
> >> truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
> >> using any other OS other than their own.
> >> Donn
> >Sounds bogus to me. An easy way to see what the _web_ server is running
> >is to use Netcraft's site. www.netcraft.com ... other tools will let you
> >do the same thing. I use Netcat for stuff like that.
> /usr/ports/net/queso
> gives correct results, occasionally :)
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html
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by Ryan Hofschneid » Wed, 06 Jan 1999 04:00:00
>> I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
>> FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
>> truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
>> using any other OS other than their own.
>Here's the url:
>http://x10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=428872365&search=thread&threaded...
>How can you tell what OS web sites are running? Can you do it with dig
>or traceroute?
>Donn
Ryan
by T » Thu, 07 Jan 1999 04:00:00
If you read the Holloween document a while back, the commented version,Quote:> I read one posting on dejanews that Microsoft uses servers running
> FreeBSD as a firewall to protect their NT boxes on microsoft.com. Any
> truth to this? It's more than likely false, since I can't see MS ever
> using any other OS other than their own.
> Donn
TC
by Richard Stein » Thu, 07 Jan 1999 04:00:00
Turn it off? ;-) Seriously, that be a good question.Quote:>Does any one know how can you _stop_ your computer from telling people
>what OS it is running?
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by Steve O'Hara Smi » Thu, 07 Jan 1999 04:00:00
: >Does any one know how can you _stop_ your computer from telling people
: >what OS it is running?
: Turn it off? ;-) Seriously, that be a good question.
Since most of the analysers are based on the way TCP/IP packets are
built I guess you would have to hack up the TCP/IP stack - so start with
a system with available sources or plugable stacks and good documentation
and then work hard (very hard).
by John Morgan Salom » Thu, 07 Jan 1999 04:00:00
This is unsubstantiated, but if true, pretty hilarious.Quote:>Here's the url:
>http://x10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=428872365&search=thread&threaded...
"telnet"Quote:>How can you tell what OS web sites are running? Can you do it with dig
>or traceroute?
-JohnQuote:>Donn
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