Re: UDP port scanning...

[antirez <antirez () invece org>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:23:42AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:
> I must have written my original email in French - it seems like only 1 in
> 10 people (or therebaouts) actually understood what I wrote.  Or maybe the
> 1:10 ratio reflects the number of script kiddies on this list ;-)
>
> Darren
>
> In some mail from Simple Nomad, sie said:
> > Yes but if the firewall or router is simply dropping the packets (common
> > with filter-based rules) then all UDP ports will show up as open, when in
> > fact they are not.

I think that a 'script kiddies' work arround may be:
if nmap found all UDP ports open print 'Warning, seems that all UDP ports
are open, maybe that outgoing type 3 ICMP or ingoing UDP packets are
filtered, bla bla'.

antirez

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