RE: Determining Operating System or Hardware via the Internet

>http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph

Netcraft is great, but be careful of a couple of things. Netcraft
reports on the physical machine that it connects to. If that machine is
a load balancer then you get the load-balancer report. Or if a site's
homepage is hosted by someone like Akamai then you'll get Akamai's
listing, which has nothing to do with the "real" site.

Also, what is "a site" today? It's not uncommon for sites to feed off of
several servers for a single page. Take www.cnn.com for example. It's
home page alone takes content from www.cnn.com, i.cnn.net, i.a.cnn.net,
and ar.atwola.com. These all seem to be running NetScape Enterprise, but
some on Linux, some on Solaris and some on "unknown". So, what's that
site running?

-Walden


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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon ODonnell
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 7:03 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Determining Operating System or Hardware via the Internet

WOW!  That actually works!  It told me that our website is running on an
AS/400.  Very cool. 


Shannon O'Donnell

 


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 1:05 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Determining Operating System or Hardware via the Internet

> From: Shannon ODonnell
> 
> Thanks for the responses.  I wasn't clear in what I was trying to do.
I
> would like to know if there is some way that I can tell what OS or 
> hardware a website is running on if all I know is the URL or the IP 
> address.  Maybe a command like TRACERT or PING or something?  Or a 
> port scanner possibly?

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph

Joe

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