Re: nmap bloqued

[Neil <neil () voidfx net>]

On 2/2/2006 5:58 PM, Oscar Aceña wrote:
> Hello,
> My question is simple: Can anyone stop scans with nmap in a whole net? I
> ask this because i was doing some tests in my net with nmap and only a
> pair of them were ok. The other machines returned always down, and i
> know this is imposible, because i had scanned them before.
>
> Sorry my speech. I know very few of english language. (If only you could
> write in spanish... but that's not imperant :-)

If for some reason packets are being dropped somewhere in the network
(either by your computer or by bad/overloaded networking gear), then I
guess nmap might return computers as being down when they're not.

-- 
Neil.
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