On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:44:59AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20041111133815.GF6553@drowsy.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann writes:
> >On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:41:06PM +1100, Dmitri Nikulin wrote:
> >> At the very least, the ability to run nmap against a NetBSD machine and 
> >> have it be completely unknown, even with plenty of open and closed ports 
> >> available.
> >
> >I don't see the security benefit of this. I prefer script kiddis noticing
> >NetBSD, sighing loud, and giving up ;-)
> >
> >Martin
> >P.S.: the nmap 3.55 I had lying around has not been able to guess the OS on an
> >y
> >NetBSD machine I pointed it at.
> >
> Indeed.  I just pointed nmap 3.70 at a 2.0rc4 machine and was told
> 
>   Running: NetBSD, Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME|NT/2K/XP
>   OS details: NetBSD 1.6ZD, Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 SP5, NT 4.0 or 95/98/98SE
> 
> I mean, it's rather slanderous, calling NetBSD a version of Windows...

May be it just means that old windows versions use netbsd's tcp/ip stack?

> 
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> 

-- 
   Alexander Yurchenko (aka grange)