Re: how nmap can know my firewalled servers ?

[ilaiy <ilaiy.e () gmail com>]

Firewalk does a better job at determinig the firewall configuration ..

./thanks
ilaiy

On 4/12/06, Alexey Eremenko <al4321 () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I know that "nmap" can show open ports. But nmap also shows my
> firewalled ports !
> How?
>
> Since some servers (like apache) are firewalled with iptables, how can
> nmap know wherever
> my system run the service with open port, filtered port or doesn't run
> it at all ?

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