On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:49:02AM -0600, orly-fu wrote: > First of all nmap does not scan only the services listed in /etc/services, if > you were to have bothered reading the manual before answering you would have > read, and I quote: > "The default is to scan all ports between 1 and 1024 as well as any > ports listed in the services file which comes with nmap." NOTE! Comes with > nmap! usually located in /usr/local/share/nmap/nmap-services.
Hmmm. If you'd bothered to read his post, you'd have seen that he claimed that he never claimed that nmap only checked ports listed in */etc/services*, but nmap's own services database. Don't believe me? Here's the quote (emphasis mine): "Also, did you know that by default, nmap only scans ports listed in *its* services file?" NOTE! No mention of /etc/services! Leaving out the detail about ports < 1024 is true, but that that was not his point. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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