Subject: Re: www.securityfocus.com runs NetBSD?
To: None <Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
From: None <proff@suburbia.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 07/10/1999 08:39:44
> On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 04:50:04PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bill Squier wrote:
> > > > www.freebsd.org:	NetBSD 1.3.x
> > > That's pretty damning evidence.
> > www.openbsd.org:	Solaris 2.x
> 
> > I think that queso needs to be tweaked a bit (unless, of course,
> > www.openbsd.org -is- running Solaris.)
> AFAIK OpenBSD is really running on a Solaris server (as virtual host).
> 
> But Queso always was very inaccurate. I really don't know why anybody
> is still using it - maybe because it pushes Linux numbers? (IOS runs
> with Queso so I give a damm on their statistics.)
> 
> For real OS detection use mmap. At least mmap will never give you
> so completly wrong answers (e.g. Cisco for NetBSD >1.3I).

mmap with OS detection. Well I never :)