On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:36:20PM +0000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > My thought of the day: why nmap localhost, rather than netstat -a > > or -an ? > > Because it is actually "netstat -anp" that will (also) list the > services. The reason for using nmap is that it is a popular tool > for ... mapping other's people machines. As such, you may want to > know about its existence and defend yourself against it. There are > certainly other methods, but that's the one I happen to have > mentioned. But, yes I will add the netstat thing, also because it is > the way for retrieving services and deleting them (as from point 8).
just a question, in which package is nmap ? it don't seem to be standardly installed, while netstat is. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
