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RE: Port scanning legal
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:08:41 -0800
I've pinged IP addrs that I later found out were MIL addrs. Nothing happened. Duh! There are a LOT of IP addrs that aren't in the DNS. How is one to know? I don't know about you, but I flunked telepathy in High School and did worse in clarvoyance. In fact, psionics wasn't wasn't something I was generally good at. That's why I went into engineering. Could it be, that is why ping and traceroute were invented? The argument against port-scanning applies equally well to just about every diagnostic tool we use. Be careful what you wish for, we might all get stuck with it. Then, where would we be?
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Hollis [mailto:goemon () sasami anime net] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:46 AM To: Shawn McMahon Cc: 'nanog () merit edu' Subject: Re: Port scanning legal On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:Better lock me up; I can't count the number of times I've nmap-ed somebody just to find out what OS they were using, eitherfor personalcuriosity, or as part of an argument.Cool. Since you're obviously in the right, how about scanning some U.S. military networks and letting us all know what OS they are using? If you like, I'll start an argument with you so you have the justification you need to portscan. -Dan
Current thread:
- Re: Port scanning legal, (continued)
- Re: Port scanning legal Christian Kuhtz (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Todd Suiter (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Stephen Sprunk (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 20)
- RE: Port scanning legal Mark Borchers (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Roeland Meyer (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Shawn McMahon (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Dan Hollis (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal L. Sassaman (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Majdi S. Abbas (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Shawn McMahon (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Dan Hollis (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Steven J. Sobol (Dec 19)
- RE: Port scanning legal Patrick Evans (Dec 19)
- Re: Port scanning legal Andrew Brown (Dec 20)
- Re: Port scanning legal Shawn McMahon (Dec 19)