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Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ?
From: Peter Wood <peterw () firstbase co uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:15:08 +0000
At 11:41 23/11/2004 +0100, Petr.Kazil () eap nl wrote: >With Superscan I seem to have blown out a switch. It went "red" on the HP >Openview screen and didn't react to ping anymore. All the network traffic >continued - fortunately :-) As of today the admins haven't been able to >tell me what really happened. I haven't dared to try Superscan anymore - >although I like it's output very much - especially it's checks for headers >and anonymous FTP and SMTP.I have a client who did the same thing - with an Extreme switch. I imagine it's a problem similar to the AIX problem, where the device allocates memory to each attempted port until it runs out of memory and crashes? We also have an ADSL router that behaves this way. The solution seems to be to ensure that the scanner tears down the session properly rather than executing a stealth scan IMHO.
regards Pete
Current thread:
- Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Petr . Kazil (Nov 23)
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- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Peter Wood (Nov 24)
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- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Jerry Shenk (Nov 24)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Dave McCormick (Nov 24)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Anders Thulin (Nov 25)
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- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? William Allsopp (Nov 24)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Jim Morgan (Nov 27)
- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Brewis, Mark (Nov 25)
- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Evans, Arian (Nov 27)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Donald Whitfield (Nov 27)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Donald Whitfield (Nov 27)
- Re: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Donald Whitfield (Nov 27)
- RE: Crashing services with NMAP and/or SuperScan ? Evans, Arian (Nov 27)