Subject: Re: High-profile anti-Unix site runs ... Unix (followup)
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 21:08:56 AKST
Maybe it has something to do with this: although it would still mean
they have a BSD machine somewhere inbetween on their network...
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Why do you report impossible operating system/server combinations ?
Webservers that operate behind a caching system, load balancer, reverse
proxy server or a firewall may sometimes report the operating system of
the intermediate machine. Hence reports of 'Microsoft/IIS on Linux' may
indicate that either the web server is behind a Linux server that is
acting as a reverse proxy, or has configured the Akamai caching system
such that the first request to the site goes to one of Akamai's servers
[which run Linux], or as in the case of www.walmart.com has been
configured to send a misleading signature.
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Justin
Justin Dieters wrote:
> netcraft.com's tool reports:
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> The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.14 (Unix)
> FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on FreeBSD
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> Justin
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> bryan@ak.net wrote:
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>>Stanley Long wrote in <3CA8CE8E.AB258FFC@customcpu.com>:
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>>>Subject: [TAML] High-profile anti-Unix site runs Unix
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>>>Embarrasing:
>>>http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html
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>>Hmm....
>>Not that it would surprise me at all, but it doesn't seem to
>>be true. The webserver reports itself as Microsoft IIS,
>>and nmap thinks it's running Windows 2000.
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>>Maybe an article special for April 1?
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>>--
>>Bryan Medsker
>>bryan@ak.net
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