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Re: nmap status question
From: Birl <sbirl () temple edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:31:29 -0400 (EDT)
As it was written on Jul 28, thus marc brown spake unto security-basics@sec...: marc: Date: 28 Jul 2003 18:03:26 -0000 marc: From: marc brown <marc.brown () watsonwyatt com> marc: To: security-basics () securityfocus com marc: Subject: nmap status question marc: marc: marc: marc: i am new to linux but after getting my rh9 box running marc: i have started to use nmap to do some scanning of my marc: networks. can someone tell me exactly what it means marc: when the state of a particular port is 'filtered'? marc: marc: thanks, marc: marc RTMP: Read the man pages. "man nmap" or http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage.html "Filtered means that a firewall, filter, or other network obstacle is covering the port and preventing nmap from determining whether the port is open." Scott Birl http://concept.temple.edu/sysadmin/ Senior Systems Administrator Computer Services Temple University ====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====+====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- nmap status question marc brown (Jul 28)
- RE: nmap status question Thomas Ng (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question Joshua J . Kugler (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question David (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question gminick (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question Pete Hunt (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question Birl (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question Terry A. Durrant (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question Shaun Moore (Jul 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: nmap status question john mathew (Jul 29)
- RE: nmap status question Brad Bemis (Jul 29)
- Re: nmap status question David Vertie (Jul 29)