nmap fingerprint

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:10:07PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> >The technical details are trade secret, so there isn't much we can do about it.
> >
> >They also told me they take into account the server banner for their stats, so
> >I'm focusing on the apache2 bug that makes it print "Debian GNU/Linux" in the
> >banner (testing a patch currently).
> >  
> >
> So, will they add kFreeBSD to the list of known operating systems? You
> got some info from them about this?

For them, the OS detected with kernel networking checks and the OS detected by
httpd server banners is completely orthogonal.  As explained in their site,
they don't mind reporting impossible combinations like "Microsoft-IIS on
GNU/Linux" or in our case "Debian's Apache on FreeBSD".

They do, however, pay attention to the server banner when it comes to
statistics, reports of distro usage and such stuff.  We'll count as Debian
users when they do their stat reports, but we can also count as GNU/kFreeBSD
users if they want to make a report about GNU/kFreeBSD usage.

> ok, since you already talked to netcraft it really doesn't matter. I
> just wanted to provide them with an always up domain, so they can adapt
> their checks properly.

Well, having more than one doesn't really hurt ;)

Btw I'm almost done with apache.  This tiny fix was surprisingly hard to get it
working properly..

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