2 Apr
2002
2 Apr
'02
4:54 a.m.
The M$ foot gets another dose of lead
Ummm, Doc, I think you fell for an April Fools prank.
If you view, say, http://www.wehavethewayout.com/xxx
you get a standard IIS 404 page, and the HTTP
response header say "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0"
I think Microsoft learned its lesion when
it took, what, a couple of years to migrate
Hotmail off of Unix onto NT/2000?
Or did I fall for the prank by responding? :/
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2 Apr
2 Apr
5:15 a.m.
And thusly Brian Knittel spake:
No you didn't... Yesterday it was being hosted on a FreeBSD servier with
Apache... Check out Slashdot at
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/02/130234&mode=thread&tid=…
for the inside skinny...
Cheers,
Bryan
The M$ foot gets another dose of lead
Ummm, Doc, I think you fell for an April Fools prank.
If you view, say, http://www.wehavethewayout.com/xxx
you get a standard IIS 404 page, and the HTTP
response header say "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0"
I think Microsoft learned its lesion when
it took, what, a couple of years to migrate
Hotmail off of Unix onto NT/2000?
Or did I fall for the prank by responding? :/
5:17 a.m.
At 10:54 AM 4/2/2002 -0800, you wrote:
This is currently on Slashdot.
It's been claimed that this was reported last week, but that M$
quickly switched it to an IIS machine.
G
The M$ foot
gets another dose of lead
Ummm, Doc, I think you fell for an April Fools prank.
If you view, say, http://www.wehavethewayout.com/xxx
you get a standard IIS 404 page, and the HTTP
response header say "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0" 
5:35 a.m.
Rumor has it that Brian Knittel may have mentioned these words:
Which is very easy to hack... Besides, when I brought it up, it only
mentioned IIS (no version) on the "response page" which can say anything,
even in Apache.
The M$ foot
gets another dose of lead
Ummm, Doc, I think you fell for an April Fools prank.
If you view, say, http://www.wehavethewayout.com/xxx
you get a standard IIS 404 page, and the HTTP
response header say "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0" I think Microsoft learned its lesion when
it took, what, a couple of years to migrate
Hotmail off of Unix onto NT/2000?
Or did I fall for the prank by responding? :/
No, because I telnetted to port 110 and they're running a slightly modified
Qpopper version 2.53 as a POP server, which does not have executibles for
Winders anything...
And besides, if it wasn't true, why was there this line:
"Representatives at Unisys and Microsoft weren't immediately available for
comment."
They'd be happy to comment if it wasn't running FreeBSD, which if they
finally did rid themselves over at Hotmail, they did it very recently...
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
5:38 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Brian Knittel wrote:
Wow. I ran "nmap" (-O option just scans for a platform
"signature") against that site yesterday and it was running FreeBSD for
sure. Now it's running XP Pro RC1 or RC2, and the page is completely
blank.
Spin~!!!!
Doc
The M$ foot
gets another dose of lead
Ummm, Doc, I think you fell for an April Fools prank.
If you view, say, http://www.wehavethewayout.com/xxx
you get a standard IIS 404 page, and the HTTP
response header say "Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0" 
6:22 a.m.
Wow. I ran "nmap" (-O option just scans
for a platform
"signature") against that site yesterday and it was running FreeBSD for
sure. Now it's running XP Pro RC1 or RC2, and the page is completely
blank.
Spin~!!!!
Doc
Now why would MS (or someone working for them) be running RC1 or RC2 rather
than the release version of XP?
Zane
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6:51 a.m.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Now why would MS (or someone working for them) be
running RC1 or RC2 rather
than the release version of XP?
I dunno. But nmap is usually accurate, and I'm running a very recent
release.
~# nmap -O www.wehavethewayout.com
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA31 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
^[[A^[[AInteresting ports on www.wehavethewayout.com (130.94.214.143):
(The 1162 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
<much snippage>
Remote operating system guess: Windows XP Professional Release Candidate
1 or 2
What's really odd is that port 5900 is open -- the usual port for VNC's
http clients. VNC is an opensource remote desktop app a la Exceed. You
can run the client as a stand-alone app or in a browser. There are a
LOT of open ports I wouldn't expect on a webserver. But then, this IS
MicroSoft.
Doc
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