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From: Rajeev Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Finding out the version
>hi list
>the telnet prompt itself gives the info , at least on my machine :
>-------
>Trying 10.5.2.167...
>Connected to penguin.sharda.mahnidrabt.com.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
>Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i686
>
> Being Run and Tweaked somewhat ....
>login:
This can be hidden with /etc/issue, On RH machine rc.local overwrites this
file, so just comment out those lines.
Coming back to original question, most of the server admin ( 95%) do not
bother about the os and version being displayed through telnet, ftp, smtp
etc for best reason known to them.
For the rest of 5% you will need nmap which has excellent capability to
detect os and version no based on response to udp/tcp packets, read
manpages of nmap.
Best Regards,
M.S.Deshmukh,
Director.
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - http://betacomp.com
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