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CmdrTaco
on from the and-they-all-run-the-beast dept.
X86BSD writes "Interesting survey at Netcraft showing the most reliable hosting providers for June. Interesting that not just the top 5 are FreeBSD but that the top 10 come from all variants in the industry."
Before the *BSD is Dying trolls start...
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Anonymous Coward
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According to Netcraft,
Intriguingly, all of the Top 5 placed sites run the FreeBSD operating system
I'm curious over the choice of the word "Intriguingly." My experience with FreeBSD has shown it to be nothing but rock-solid as a server OS. I actually prefer it over Linux these days (I was a RH-zealot for a couple of years until I "saw the light," as it were).
What would be intriguing were if Windows had nabbed the top 5 spots...
You say that, but I believe that netcraft detects the OS based on responses to queries sent to the webserver.
Nmap, on the other hand, detects the OS based on the random-number sequence generation of TCP packets.
How does this affect things? Well, if you have a load balancer or firewall that forwards the HTTP connection to another webserver somewhere, then nmap will return the OS of the firewall or load balancer, whereas netcraft will return the OS of the final webserver.
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What would be intriguing were if Windows had nabbed the top 5 spots...
You say that, but I believe that netcraft detects the OS based on responses to queries sent to the webserver.
Nmap, on the other hand, detects the OS based on the random-number sequence generation of TCP packets.
How does this affect things? Well, if you have a load balancer or firewall that forwards the HTTP connection to another webserver somewhere, then nmap will return the OS of the firewall or load balancer, whereas netcraft will return the OS of the final webserver.