Re: what did I miss this time?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:21:36AM -0400, R M wrote:
> I finally got a chance to test this with FreeBSD (nmap 4.01)
>
> and guess what, it doesn't work for this one host. Regular ping works.
>
> so I am forced to assume this host is able to differentiate between a
> normal ping and an nmap echo request ping.

As Omar noted, most OS-provided ping utilities send some data with the
ping packets.  If you add "--data-length 32" or "--data-length 64" to
your Nmap command, does that change anything?

Cheers,
-F

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