[Ma-linux] Need a quick reminder

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Przemek:

Przemek Klosowski writes:
> On 10/14/2011 08:44 AM, Alan McConnell wrote:
> 
> > If any one recalls the one company that _doesn't_ use Linux,
> > but rather BSD, please let me know.  And if anyone knows
> > what command to use to probe a site to determine what SW
> > it is using(I seem to recall that such exists) please let
> > me know.


Don't know wh it is that uses BSD, However, the command you're looking
for is:

nmap -O

There are also several variants in the nmap man page.

hth

Janina

> 
> Yes, famously, Microsoft used to use BSD :) It was not on their main 
> site but on some subsystem, IIRC on Hotmail. When people started making 
> fun of them because of it, they put up an IIS front end.
> 
> netcraft.com has great tools that tell the uptime and platform---but of 
> course that is misleading because from the outside you can only see the 
> front layer of website load management(*), so it doesn't really tell you 
> anything authoritative about the architecture of the real website 
> back-end, and in any case has no bearing on what the company is using 
> internally.
> 
> 
> (*) Specifically, many large websites show the OS as F5 BIG-IP which is 
> an edge gateway
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