[47960] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Doncaster)
Sun May 19 10:49:45 2002
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:50:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
To: Allan Liska <allan@allan.org>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> RD> I often like to know if a particular web server is running Unix or
> RD> Winblows. A port scanner is a useful tool in making that determination.
>
> [allan@ns1 phpdig]$ telnet www.istop.com 80
> Trying 216.187.106.194...
> Connected to dci.doncaster.on.ca (216.187.106.194).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> HEAD / HTTP/1.0
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 01:47:57 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_fastcgi/2.2.8
Sure, it works on some servers, but try it on yahoo.com, cnn.com, ...
-Ralph
