Re: Help understanding a trace of an nmap scan

[Jose Maria Lopez <jkerouac () bgsec com>]

El lun, 06 de 09 de 2004 a las 16:11, Richard Moore escribió:
> I wonder if anyone can help me make sense of this packet trace. It shows 
> nmap running a connect scan against port 13 of a host. The part I don't
> understand is why there are 3 RST packets sent to the target machine?

It looks as if nmap is sending RST packets until it receives a FIN
packet from the portscanned machine. What options do you use with
nmap to obtain this traffic?

> If it helps anyone the target host is a Debian box running 2.4.26 Linux 
> kernel and the source machine was a RedHat box running 2.4.7-10. The
> version of nmap used is 3.48.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich.
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