Nmap Development: Re: Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site - hehe

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:28:14AM -0700, Dave Rugh wrote:
> Hi Fyodor,
>   
> Can I prove out the story below using NMAP?  If I can, what params should I
> have used?  
>
> The params I used, and the results (via NMAPWIN) are below)
[ Cut story from
  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/13100775 on
  Microsoft using Linux ]

Yes, you can.  The problem is that you are using a year-old version of
Nmap.  Download 3.30 Windows .zip binaries instead of Nmapwin.  It
should show the same (pleasing) results as this:

nmap -sS -O -p80,81 www.microsoft.com

Starting nmap 3.40PVT10 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-08-21 13:15 PDT
Interesting ports on unknown.Level3.net (166.90.133.198):
PORT   STATE  SERVICE
80/tcp open   http
81/tcp closed hosts2-ns
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.5.X
OS details: Linux Kernel 2.4.18 - 2.5.70 (X86)
Uptime 8.740 days (since Tue Aug 12 19:30:43 2003)

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.782 seconds

Cheers,
Fyodor

PS: The above is a test version of Nmap that I hope to release in the
next week, but 3.30 gives the same OS detection results.

PPS: I copied this resposne to nmap-dev, 'cause I think it is
interesting to see www.microsoft.com served by a Linux machine, even
if there is a good explanation (using Akamai).

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