Mark Ovens wrote on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:40:
> The first 3 entries on that page:
>=20
> Rank OS Server Netblock Owner
> 1 BSD/OS Microsoft-IIS/5.0 NEC Soft,Ltd.
> 2 BSD/OS Microsoft-IIS/6.0 NEC Soft,Ltd.
> 3 BSD/OS Microsoft-IIS/5.0 NEC Soft,Ltd.
>=20
> IIS running on BSD/OS?????
=46rom <http://uptime.netcraft.net/up/accuracy.html#impossible>:
:: Why do you report impossible operating system/server combinations ?
Webservers that operate behind a caching system, load balancer, reverse pro=
xy
server or a firewall may sometimes report the operating system of the
intermediate machine. Hence reports of 'Microsoft/IIS on Linux' may indicate
that either the web server is behind a Linux server that is acting as a
reverse proxy, or has configured the Akamai caching system such that the
first request to the site goes to one of Akamai's servers [which run Linux],
or as in the case of www.walmart.com has been configured to send a misleadi=
ng
signature.=20
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Jakob Breivik Grimstveit, <http://www.grimstveit.no/jakob/>, 48298152
Bes=F8k Newsergalleriet: <http://www.newsergalleriet.no/>
"Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'".
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