Subject: Re: High-profile anti-Unix site runs ... Unix (followup)
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 07:58:24 AKST
From Slashdot today:
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Wehavethewayout.com was returning Apache headers yesterday; today it's
returning "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0", so it appears they've dumped
FreeBSD in a hurry, or maybe just changed the headers.
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I find it all very humourous.. :P
Justin
Justin Dieters wrote:
> 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
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> Justin Dieters wrote:
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>>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
>>>>
>>>>Embarrasing:
>>>>http://news.com.com/2100-1001-872266.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Maybe an article special for April 1?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Bryan Medsker
>>>bryan@ak.net
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