[Gllug] university windows-only policy

[Jack Bertram]

* will <will at hellacool.co.uk> [030929 17:11]:
> If you are runnung no external services then they shouldn't be able to 
> tell the difference between a linux box and a firewalled windows box. 

Not quite true, surely - nmap can guess operating system types by
looking at responses to particular TCP/UDP packets without any services
running on a scanned box.

jack


user at host# nmap -O foreignhost

Starting nmap 3.30 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2003-09-29 17:14 BST
Interesting ports on foreignhost (x.x.x.x):

[snip]

Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X
OS details: Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20
Uptime 65.752 days (since Fri Jul 25 23:11:59 2003)

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.570 seconds



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