Subject: Re: netcraft OS detection
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Daniel de Kok <daniel@evilbsd.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/01/2004 19:43:24
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:41:46AM -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>  wrote:
>  > I'm sure many of you have noticed that SCO moved from Linux to a
>  > ``OpenBSD/NetBSD'' platform, according to netcraft.  While I don't
>  > really know (or care) how accurate this may in fact be, I was wondering
>  > if anybody knows why it is that netcraft can't distinguish between
>  > NetBSD and OpenBSD?
> 
> Presumably, whenever we change something, they take the change so there's
> no way to distinguish.

I am not sure, but it seems nmap can make the distinction.

With kind regards,
Daniel de Kok