Re: Why does OS fingerprinting happen before Application Fingerprinting

[cullen () firehead org (Cullen Newsom)]

Use the source, Luke.  Having never actually done so, I suspect that the
answer to your question may be simply that OS detection was implemented
before service detection.  

noose

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:27:06PM -0800, alan donald wrote:
> I just ran a few scans with the OS probe and Version
> probe check boxes checked. It appeared that the OS
> detection is being done before the Version  detection.
> Why is this so?  Is it some performance issue or is it
> using this information in some way.
>
> Or is this just random and the 2 types (OS vs Version)
> of probes can be sent one before the other or vice
> versa.

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