Re: UDP scanning

["Hans Nilsson" <hasse_gg () ftml net>]

Well since, like you mention, UDP ports don't typically respond to
packets it's probably difficult. All I can think of is also trying a
version scan and seeing if you can provoke a response from the port in
question.


On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:51:24 +0000, "Hari Sekhon"
<hpsekhon () googlemail com> said:
> I'm trying to scan for the accessibility of the udp ports 137 and 138 
> but am not sure about this. Given that udp is connectionless and doesn't 
> have to respond, is it even possible that I can use nmap to see if those 
> two ports are accessible. I know the host is up, host discovery by icmp 
> bounce is not what I am interested in here, just verification of whether 
> the udp ports are accessible through the firewall.
>
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
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> Hari Sekhon
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