[CF-Devel] metaserver tracking of clients by OS?

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Suggest nmap -O remote IP, and parse its output...

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From: "Bob Tanner" <
     
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Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] metaserver tracking of clients by OS?


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      On Friday 10 September 2004 01:28 am, Mark Wedel wrote:
     
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      > Rick Tanner wrote:
     
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      > > Does anyone have any comments on using the metaserver script to
     
     profile
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      > > what clients (and versions) by OS are connecting to (or logging in to)
     
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      > > the public servers?
     
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      > > What about concerns or questions with doing this?
     
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      >   Well, I don't think you can actually do that.
     
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      >   When the client connects to the metaserver, it does not send any
     
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      > information about itself - rather, the metaserver just sees a connection
     
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      > comes in and blindly sends the data.
     
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      >   You can actually try this yourself:
     
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      > telnet crossfire.real-time.com 13326
     
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      > (see bunch of data come back)
     
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      I'll jump in here, since this is really something I ask Leaf about.
     
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      Cleaning up the makefiles and what-not, I see there is a lot of kruft
     
     (imho)
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      in the files.
     
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      I don't mean to start a flamefest, but, there is a lot of autoconf stuff
     
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      platforms I just don't see people running.
     
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      I am just looking for something simple to track crossfire client operating
     
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      systems.
     
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      My guess is that no one(?) is running the client on:
     
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      alpha-dec-osf
     
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      mips*-sgi-irix*
     
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      My guess is that no one(?) is running the gnome client, since it's even
     
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      commented out of the build.
     
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      It comes down to if it works, why remove it vs If no one is using it, why
     
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      support it?
     
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