Questions tagged [nmap]
A robust and open source security tool for network discovery and security auditing.
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is it possible to test out remote host by using nmap?
I was trying to test out my friend's computer (with agreement) by using nmap remotely. But the result I got seems kinda awkward to me. It only showed 1900 as tcpwrapper and all other ports were no ...
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NMAP SSMTP Service Detection
When I examined a NMAP -sV scan on a host running Exim on port 465, it uses the standard SYN scan to determine if the port is open, and then issues a Client Hello to which the server responds with a ...
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NMAP DNS Service Detection
I was looking out how NMAP identifies DNS services. After determining that port 53 is open it issues a standard query TXT version.bind to find out if BIND is running on the domain port. Then, I saw ...
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NMAP Commands Used in Option -A
I've found that using the command nmap -A gives me the most reliable results and according to the reference guide the option -A includes service detection, traceroute, and OS detection. I want to do ...
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Could Nmap scan switches/routers
Nmap can scan and sometimes successfully detect the running OS in the remote host. However, can nmap scan routers and switches? Most of them use an embedded system.
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How to find the OS of the target machine
I am new to this field. Currently I am using Linux OS and
my question is how can I find the OS of another machine to
which I do not have a direct access.
I am interested in any possibilities which ...
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Scanning my network with NMAP
Each computer is assigned one ip address on my network, and my ISP supplies one IP for my network. If I try to scan the ip supplied by my ISP what I got is the OS running on the router, running on the ...
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How to detect hosts running in virtual machines with nmap?
I have to determine if a given subnet has virtual hosts.
Are there any ideas about what switches to use?
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Persisting and comparing NMAP scans
Does anyone have any good recommendations on a good tool for persisting NMAP scans to database?
It may be a tool for persisting or simply a java library for easy parsing of the nmap xml scan result ...
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