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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Re[2]: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)
On 07:50 AM 5/19/02, 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. >> >> [[email protected] 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, ... <http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.cnn.com> Works for me, works from any system that has a browser. At any given time I'm *far* more likely to have a browser running than port scanning software, so this solution is also IMHO faster. jc
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