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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!symiserver.symantec.com!news.central.com!news From: tedmtoybox@agora.rdrop.com Subject: Re: Heh... X-Newsreader: IBM RN 3.8d (OS/2 2.0) bugfixed by mittelst@fh-ulm.de Sender: news@news.central.com (Usenet Netnews) Organization: Peter Norton Group, Symantec Corp. Beaverton Message-ID: <DDy9ME.CKI@news.central.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 03:24:29 GMT Lines: 33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5372 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:754 In <MICHAELV.95Aug24235822@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: | In article <41ip4t$900@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) | | Hey kids, check this out. Micro$oft recently put up a bunch of | web servers dedicated to Win95 things. They have names like | www.windows.microsoft.com, download.windows.microsoft.com, etc. | There's apparently a bunch of them set up in a round-robin DNS | rotation. Curiously, telnetting to them reveals this: | [...] | BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 (wl8.windows.microsoft.com) (ttyp1) | [...] | BSDI BSD/OS 2.0 (wl9.windows.microsoft.com) (ttyp1) | [...] | Kinda makes you think, don't it. | | Your point being? If they're going to run a Unix server, they have to | run some type of Unix on it, correct? BSDI is a popular choice | because it's excellent, and it's commercially supported. | I think the point is that Microsoft's marketing department has been trumpeting Windows NT as being a replacement for Unix. Actually, I wouldn't blame Microsoft on this one. The way Web services are going these days it is a very good chance that they simply contracted out all of those web sites to a commercial Internet service provider. ISP's generally are smart enough to write language into their contracts that effectively locks out the customer from any decisions on the type of hardware, software, etc precisely to avoid this kind of posturing. In any case, I wouldn't trust a banner to reveal the type of machine. Sheesh I cannot imagine a simpler thing to change.