Re: hunt tool

[Eric Hagen <eric () sandpile net>]

Hunt is a packet sniffer, much like Dsniff.  It relies on Layer 2 
transmissions to intercept traffic.  Except where you can spoof a DNS or 
an entire subnet or place yourself in the middle of the stream by 
sniffing from a router or broadcast network which is on the path the 
packets are traveling, it's really impossible to "sniff" traffic off a 
different subnet.

Plus, anything exploit that would allow remote sniffing should (and 
hopefully would) be locked down as much as possible by the network 
administrator.  As a result, sniffing telnet sessions off the Internet 
using hunt is neither practical nor usually even possible.

Eric

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