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Re: nmap: OS hints from service versions


From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 12:50:02 +0400

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 22:47 +0300, Toni Ruottu wrote:
The OS detection is trying to detect the OS of the host. The services
might all be running on different operating systems because of
virtualization and port forwarding.

Doesn't the whole OS detection rely on answers to the probes to the same
ports?  In case of port forwarding it is already fooled, isn't it?

-- 
Vasiliy
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