Netcraft: DF == FBSD

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Tue Feb 13 07:07:09 PST 2007


On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:28:19 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:57:22PM +0100, Gergo Szakal wrote:
> > Hello, just a note for you all: I jst tried to make NetCraft gather
> > info about my DF www server and it reports the OS as FreeBSD. Can
> > something be done to this at DF's end? Just interested...
> 
> Deliberately changing the signature of the TCP stack is not exactly my
> idea of things worth to do...

	OTOH if there are already differences that could be picked up then
Netcraft might be interested in getting someone to refine the heuristics to
spot DF. I know who to talk to at Netcraft as long as I wouldn't be sending
him on a wild goose chase.

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