Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022)

Post by toast0 » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 10:50 PM UTC

smackeyacky wrote: post #15

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #14

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ought to be enough for anybody ... :-p I was surprised to find out there is a TCP/IP stack for DOS, I remember still having to depend on non-MS software as late as Win 3.1 to connect to the internet [1], never heard of "LAN manager" [2] but apparently it did have (some?) support. Btw, according to its author, "mTCP is a hobby project that I started in 2005." [3] -- 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Winsock 2:…

You could get all kinds of network stacks for msdos. Net ware, 3Com XNS, a weird proto Microsoft network I can’t recall the name of, banyan vines, decnet . Weird stuff for ibm token ring networks. And yep TCP as well. When lan manager was released you could run it over a choice of networks TCP included, because the original lan manager ran on Unix as well as OS/2 as the server.

Post by sph » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 8:18 AM UTC

thfuran wrote: post #47

sph wrote: post #28

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These bots you are talking about are not intelligent, they do not find "insecure" servers to break into. They simply brute-force and exploit known bugs on popular services. There is no botnet targeting web services running on DOS, because no one is running web services on DOS.

>they do not find "insecure" servers to break into. They simply brute-force and exploit known bugs on popular services. What exactly is the difference?