Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time

denysvitali 172 points 40 comments June 16, 2026
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naturalmovement

I front all my honeypots with the IIS landing page precisely because it attracts black hat jagoffs. Nothing makes me happier than knowing I've wasted hours of their time chasing their own tails.

hstaab

The tone of this is something else

AuthAuth

Ah webpage formatting cooked but otherwise a fun read

sytelus

This is extremely well done design (at least on full desktop browsers). Amazing content as well.

Group_B

Would love to see a write yo on nginx!

Lammy

> IIS has a legacy behavior inherited from the old DOS 8.3 filename convention. Is this exposing the underlying OS's behavior coupled with the fact that the IIS document root is `C:\Inetpub` by default? Eight-dot-three filenames are enabled by default on the C drive but disabled by default on all other drives on Windows 10/11: PS> (Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion').DisplayVersion 24H2 PS> fsutil 8dot3name query C: The volume state is: 0 (8dot3 name creation is ENABLED) The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default) Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is ENABLED on "C:" PS> fsutil 8dot3name query U: The volume state is: 1 (8dot3 name creation is DISABLED) The registry state is: 2 (Per volume setting - the default) Based on the above settings, 8dot3 name creation is DISABLED on "U:"

t1234s

Does anyone use IIS anymore?

NooneAtAll3

what's the deal with left sidebar overlapping the main text?

kahf56

good entertainment

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