NTL - what have I let myself in for!

Mike Bristow michaelb at demon.net
Fri Jun 2 13:58:37 BST 2000


On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:20:13PM +0100, Richard Wendland wrote:
> Horse's mouth: I just checked their MX hosts, TCP connections
> answered by Solaris as well.  That is:
> 
> 	smtp.ntlworld.com
> 	mail-intake-1.mail.com
> 	mail-intake-2.mail.com
> 	mail-intake-3.mail.com
> 
> NB you can't make SMTP queries from the Netcraft web pages.

I didn't bother with an nmap scan :-)

> > [1] http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.shivan.demon.co.uk
> > gives the wrong answer for the OS of the origin server, for instance.
> 
> Yes, the Netcraft OS detector figures out the OS of whatever answers
> TCP rather than the origin server.  Demon use a reverse squid setup
> on FreeBSD to front-end their IRIX systems running thttpd[1], so
> the Netcraft query says FreeBSD.
> 
> [1] or did last year when Demon folks told me.

It's still the case at the moment.

-- 
Mike Bristow, seebitwopie  




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