From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 18:39:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.nildram.co.uk (marvin.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C57937B411 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 18:39:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4514 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2001 01:39:14 -0000 Received: from muttley.gotadsl.co.uk (HELO VicNBob) (213.208.123.26) by marvin.nildram.co.uk with SMTP; 24 Sep 2001 01:39:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:39:16 +0100 To: Brandon S.Allbery KF8NH Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Matthew Whelan Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: Opera 5.11 build 904 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20010924013916.5C57937B411@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 24/09/2001 01:28:12, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote: >On Sunday, September 23, 2001 17:20:56 -0700, "Chad R. Larson" > wrote: >+----- >| Interesting. There's been a popular rumour that Microsoft availed >| itself to the liberal BSD license, and availed itself to the FreeBSD >| protocol stack. The rumor further said that if you pointed an OS >| fingerprinting program at a Win2k box it would be identified as >| FreeBSD. >+--->8 >At a guess, those rumors were founded on probes of microsoft.com and >hotmail.com. Microsoft has acknowledged that it has used FreeBSD for >firewalling, I believe, so it's likely just a case of mistaken identity. I definirely heard such rumours long before I heard of win2k, in fact I'm pretty sure I heard of them pre-win98. But the rumours did also include the code being deeply bastardised, which would be necessary to explain why the windoze stack is such a fetid bag of bollocks Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message