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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
>
>> > Also at last verification was ebay, www.ebay.com Powered by FreeBSD.
>> 
>> Look again.
>
>How does one even tell? Most sites don't ever indicate what sort of
>hardware they're running and eBay seems to be no exception.  If you
>can find a description of their server configuration somewhere off the
>home page (no matter how indirect) then you're a better man than I
>am. :-)

Generally, I try something like:

$ telnet www.ebay.com http | tee file1
Trying 206.79.19.230...
Connected to www.ebay.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/3.0
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:56:16 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 08:29:30 GMT
Content-Length: 14668

[ other stuff, such as the html, deleted ]

Granted the Server field doesn't really show much
about the hardware, but it might help.  Such as in
this case (from a quick look at microsoft's web
pages), Microsoft-IIS/3.0 requires NT 4.0 Server
and service pack 3.  Perhaps they make a unix version
and don't mention it, but it looks like www.ebay.com
runs NT.  (At least the web site.)

 ...Roland