Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 23216
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2001/12/11-12 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:23216 Activity:moderate
12/11   is there a way to 'uname' from a distance? ie is there some way to
        'uname' a machine that i'm not logged into?
        \_ Try "nslookup -query=hinfo hostname", but I think only some machines
           conform to this.  --- yuen
           \_ some sites give out incorrect info to confound '1337 H4X0R5!
              so don't trust hinfo records.
              Alternatives include snmpwalk (get sysobjectid), rsh/ssh, or
              HEAD / HTTP/1.0 and grok the output.
           \_ That doesn't give uname info, does it? The output I'm getting
              is very similar to that of 'dig'.
        \_ I believe you want a tool like nmap
            \_ nmap isn't very accurate, it reports MacOS 9.x as HPUX 11.x
               and FreeBSD 5.0 as Darwin.
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