[47961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re[2]: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
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Sun May 19 10:54:28 2002
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:53:56 -0400 (EDT)
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To: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sun, 19 May 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote:
>
> > 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, ...
dunno, but might have something to do with Akamaization...
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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