Re: apache and netcraft
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:22:26PM +0200, Oystein Viggen wrote:
> * [Robert Millan]
>
> > Netcraft titles the section as "Operating System and Web Server for foo",
> > asking them to output "the Hurd" implies that this is the correct name
> > for a Hurd-based GNU OS. IMHO, this would generate confusion onto a lot
> > of new people that don't know the details.
>
> IMO, from the TCP fingerprinting point of view, the interesting part is
> the one that talks to the network. In GNU/Linux that part is Linux, and
> in GNU/Hurd that part is the Hurd (or more precisely pfinet).
I completely agree, but then it is the "Operating System and Web Server
for foo" title which is not in concordance.
> I don't think TCP fingerprinting can know if you are running a Hurd
> based GNU OS, only that you are running a Hurd based OS. Further
> assumptions should be left as an excercise to the reader.
These assumptions use to happen. Say, when you scan a FreeBSD system
it will tell you the name of the FreeBSD OS. There are other OSes
(like GNU/FreeBSD) based on the FreeBSD kernel, but it still refers
to the complete OS.
> And, yes, this will obviously cause confusion. :)
confusion is our destiny ;)
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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