NMAP 3.48 Tutorial - Lesson 3 - Common Output

[PuReExcTacy]

What other tools do you have in mind for possible future tutorials? Nessus or dsniff possibly (hint* hint*). Thanks for your time in creating these, I look forward to future realeases.


--PuRe

[thehorse13]

Yes, Nessus, Dsniff, Snort and Hping.

All will come in time. I'm getting ready to begin the next tut in the NMAP series so keep your eyes open for that one.

[RiOtEr]

The result of running nmap is usually a list of interesting ports on the machine(s) being scanned (if any). The state is either "open", "filtered", or "unfiltered". Open means that the target machine will accept connections on that port. Filtered means that a firewall, filter, or other network obstacle is covering the port and preventing nmap from determining whether the port is open. Unfiltered means that the port is known by nmap to be closed and no fire wall/filter seems to be interfering with nmap's attempts to determine this.


man nmap does wonderful things including showing up a direct copy and paste

[thehorse13]

man nmap does wonderful things including showing up a direct copy and paste

Yep, and reading is fundamental too: Please read the preface.

I will be borrowing verbage (in some cases) from the developer because I feel that the developer has worded things in such ways that I cannot improve upon. By no means is this a cut & paste tutorial but I would like to make everyone aware that I will be borrowing info where it makes sense.

[RiOtEr]

so basicly your "tutorial" is a copy and paste from the man pages with a scan in the middle, wow informative

[Girl_for_Tech]

so basicly your "tutorial" is a copy and paste from the man pages with a scan in the middle, wow informative

Forgive him father (horse), he knows not what he speaks!

[br_fusion]

Nice job, espically w/ explaining the filter rules. I was a little bit shady on "unfiltered" but it has become a lot more clear now.

[skiddieleet]

So if filtered and unfiltered mean those things, then what does closed mean? Or is there no closed, because it seemed to be covered pretty well by filtered and unfiltered.

[thehorse13]

so basicly your "tutorial" is a copy and paste from the man pages with a scan in the middle, wow informative

Yes, exactly. You are absolutely correct. Happy?

[Tiger Shark]

Methinks Rioter has been staring too long at his avatar......

I know it does strange things to this old body.....

Rioter: Chill..... Hoss made it quite clear what this was all about right up front...... We don't all have time to reinvent the wheel only to find that the first one was better......