On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:30:42 -0700, Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I always use www.netcraft.co.uk/whats Just type in the url and it does > some > kind of magic that returns not only server type but in many cases the uptime > for that server. > It is a site that keeps track of the usage of various servers across the > internet and is generally considered on of the most reliable.
In actual practice, it doesn't work too well. Netcraft can identify the server which is connects to, but not any other servers on the domain. Current examples of this include Hotmail and wehavethewayout.com. Both are Microsoft sites (the latter is a joint venture with Unisys), and both are reported by Netcraft to be running on Windows 2000 (probably because the frontend server is Windows). On closer inspection, however, the domains bear all the hallmarks of a BSD server running Apache (the latter also using MySQL) at the backend. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place." -- Douglas Adams
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