Re: weird nmap problems

[Jon Passki <jon.passki () hursk com>]

On Jul 12, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Diman Todorov wrote:

> > By default, nmap will try to discover if the host is active before
> > scanning, which (by default) uses the ICMP echo request / reply
> > method.  If the host is not discovered, nmap will consider the host
> > not up (and all ports on it filtered).  When you specified -P0, you
> > requested nmap to skip the host discovery phase and perform the TCP
> > connect scan (default scan type) on the port specified.  Clear as
> > mud, eh? ;-)  So, the results you had in all cases are expected and
> > nmap is performing correctly.
>
> it is not so simple :)

My apologizes, I gave some bad advise :-(

Time to RTFM :-)

Jon

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