I found out the answer from a friend. Apparently Microsoft paid the
hosting company to use MS servers but the hosting company wasnt
prepared to do that. So for over a year now when they are audited, on
a monthly basis, it makes them appear compliant with their agreement.
I was told, rumor has it, that the deal involved 2-3 million dollars
to literally buy market share for MS.
IP: 209.237.150.13
It would seem they both have no problem with deceit and a big problem
with integrity. I wonder how Redhat would respond if they found out?
On Aug 3, 5:48 am, "Jason Rivers" <j...@jjj.j> wrote:
> Some people do this to avoid hackers,
>
> if your machine reports it is something it's not, then it makes it just that
> little harder to break into =)
>
> It's a very old and very effective trick 
>
> /J
>
> "truth1984" . wrote in message
>
> news:1186079974.830650.135060@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Why would a web hosting company want to mask their linux servers with
> > a win proxy box? When you query the server is replies as having
> > Microsoft-IIS/6.0 when it is in fact running linux redhat 9.0.
> > Are they trying to hide something?