Re: NMAP Switches, -sS, -sT, etc.

["Doug Fox" <dfox168 () hotmail com>]

Steve;

As I understand, -p- is meant to scan all 65535 ports.  I did one last night 
on one host, it took 7 hours to complete.

Regards,

DF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Makousky, Steve C" <SMAKOUS1 () Fairview org>
To: "Doug Fox" <dfox168 () hotmail com>; <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:20 PM
Subject: RE: NMAP Switches, -sS, -sT, etc.


I believe you can use -p- to represent a full scan.
FYI.

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Fairview Information Services
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smakous1 () fairview org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Fox [mailto:dfox168 () hotmail com]
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:07 AM
To: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: NMAP Switches, -sS, -sT, etc.

If I may, I like to poll the list what are your favorite switches when
using NMAP to conduct "intensive/comprehensive" security testing.

I have been using

NMAP -vv -A -sS -O -p1-65535 -P0 -oX target.xml www.xxx.yyy.zzz.

I find I got more information using -sS than -sT and requires short
time.

Any suggestions/comments are appreciated.

Thanks,

DF

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