RE: Interesting challenge

[Daniel Staal <DStaal () usa net>]

--As off Friday, January 30, 2004 4:55 PM -0500, Sanjay K. Patel is 
alleged to have said:

>  almost everyone who replied pointed towards icmp. We have tried
> running the test with icmp disabled. We still do not get a reply on
> those ports.

--As for the rest, it is mine.

One other option comes to mind: recent versions of OpenBSD can filter 
based on OS signature.  I know that Nessus is one of the 'OS' 
choices.  Could it be that the firewall is detecting your scanners 
and dropping them?

Daniel T. Staal

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