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["Mehmet Murat Gunsay" <mgunsay () btkom com>]

> For what it is worth, Nmap always retries ports that do not respond.
> It only marks them "filtered" after multiple probes fail to elicit any
> response.  If lost packets are detected (for example if Nmap receives
> a response to the second probe but not the first one), then the number
> of retries is increased dramatically.  Thus it is unlikely that an
> open port will be mislabeled "filtered" because of a few dropped
> packets.

To expand on this subject further, I'm running the following nmap command line

nmap -P0 -sS -p 80 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

and I know that the port is open.  However I'm getting the following result:

80/tcp     filtered    http
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 36 seconds

How should I analyze this result??? Any feedback appreciated.

Mehmet Murat Gunsay
BTKOM A.S.
http://www.btkom.com
mgunsay () btkom com     murat () gunsay com
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