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Detect OS name and version from external

Is there a way to detect the OS name and version before login to the system? If it does, is there way to prevent it?
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>Login prompt for telnet is in /etc/issue.net

Not on Solaris it isn't
By POSIX it is..
Really? I just did a full search at the opengroup.org website, and there are no hits on /etc/issue.net. But that is moot, since the one of the zones for this question is Solaris, and Solaris doesn't use /etc/issue.net.