Re: nmap OS detection

[Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>]

15.09.2014 18:31, Sebastian Brestin:
> Hello world,
>
> I have encountered some difficulties when trying to detect OSes using nmap
> and I am not sure if it is from the network routing tables, not compiling
> nmap as it should be or from my newbie like usage.
>
> Running *nmap -sUT -v -6 -T4 -O -F ipv6addr* fails to determine the OSes
> like: ubuntu, hpux and aix. Ubuntu is detected when I run nmap from
> different machine(than the first one) against it. Also I noticed that
> scanning the local machine with nmap always fails to determine the OS. Not
> sure why.
>
> I am more concerned about the ipv6 situation, since scanning on ipv4 nmap
> identifies the ubuntu, hpux and aix correctly.
>
> Any help or suggestions are well welcomed.
>
> -sgb
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Hello,

Please read up on OS detection here:

http://nmap.org/book/osdetect.html

Cheers,
Jacek Wielemborek

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