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RE: Scanning Class A network
From: "Mike Thompson" <mthompson () brinkster com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:56:30 -0400
I would suggest: 1. Using multiple hosts to execute the scan. 2. Try to use appliances or strip the OS down to the bones. Hopefully you are using Linux? 3. If you can, since this is an external scan, try to collocate with a datacenter that is physically close and low latency to the targets. 4. Ask superman for help. Cheers, Mike -----Original Message----- From: tarunthenut () gmail com [mailto:tarunthenut () gmail com] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 5:33 AM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Scanning Class A network Hello All, Recently I was given a task to carry out a port scan of an entire valid Class A range (Dont ask me what the huge pool of valid IP's was for :) ). The scan needed to be carried out externally, and not from within the network to identify hosts and ports exposed to the Internet. The problem compounded cause of the following limitations : 1. ICMP was not allowed in the network 2. The IP range was to be scanned every month for the entire port range fro= m 1-65535 for TCP & UDP After searching for a suitable scanner which could scan such a large range in reasonable time, I could think of only nmap, nessus, superscan and ISS. But because of the limitations stated above,all the tools took a huge amount of time (ran into month). I have struggled with options within the tools, tried configurable parameters (host time out, parallelism, RTT etc) and divided into smaller class C networks and scanned.but still the scan seems to take ages even if it is Any advise would be welcome :) Cheers tarunthenut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Audit your website security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner: Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications on your website. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are futile against web application hacking. Check your website for vulnerabilities to SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web attacks before hackers do! Download Trial at: http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/pen-test_050831 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Audit your website security with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner: Hackers are concentrating their efforts on attacking applications on your website. Up to 75% of cyber attacks are launched on shopping carts, forms, login pages, dynamic content etc. Firewalls, SSL and locked-down servers are futile against web application hacking. Check your website for vulnerabilities to SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web attacks before hackers do! Download Trial at: http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/pen-test_050831 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- RE: Scanning Class A network, (continued)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Kyle Starkey (Oct 24)
- Re: Scanning Class A network Satanic.Brain (Oct 24)
- Re: Scanning Class A network R. DuFresne (Oct 24)
- Re: Scanning Class A network Steve Micallef (Oct 24)
- Re: Scanning Class A network Volker Tanger (Oct 24)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Talisker (Oct 25)
- Re: Scanning Class A network Adam Jones (Oct 26)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Brian Loe (Oct 26)
- Re: Scanning Class A network barcajax (Oct 24)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Jarmon, Don R (Oct 24)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Mike Thompson (Oct 24)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Josh Perrymon (Oct 24)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Derick Anderson (Oct 24)
- Re: Scanning Class A network Cesar Osorio (Oct 24)
- RE: Scanning Class A network Michael Gargiullo (Oct 25)
- Re: Scanning Class A network tarun_the_nut (Oct 31)