Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Scott C. Best wrote:
>
> > > If I run nmap on another machine as follows:
> > >
> > > nmap -p 6001 host.machine
> >
> > Instead of running nmap on all those ports (the -p <number>,
> > without the number, scans all the low numbered ports <1024, plus any
> > that come with the nmap config files) have you tried just running it
> > against the 5801/5901 ports? That'd be interesting to see if it
> > crashed your Xvnc again.
>
> I haven't tried it, but I don't like to crash it. Maybe someone else can
> try it.
>
Mike, I did against a couple of my Linux boxes and had no problems, whether
the viewer was open or not.
>
> This brings me to my original question: Is port 60xx DoS attack a known
> VNC problem?
>
> (I'm not criticizing VNC.)
>
Really, I've nmapped machines running vnc all the time -- that's how I
noticed I was running one I didn't aim to be running the other day. I've
never seen one crash due to the nmap. RPM tells me I have vnc-3.3.3r2-4 for
what it's worth.
Michael Procter
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