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Nmap Development: Re: extra features for nmap

Re: extra features for nmap

From: Haroon Meer <haroon_at_sensepost.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:45:54 +0200 (SAST)

hi.

try amap.
www.thehackerschoice.com

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, testic wrote:

> I hope I'm sending this to the correct address...
>
> I was scanning a company network the other day (with their permission of course) and I thought I'd discovered a lot of unusual services running on their machines. Later, when I asked their admin about this I was told that they aren't unusual services at all, merely common services running on non-standard ports. Which gave me the idea.
>
> If a database similar to the os-fingerprints database were started, containing responses of known programs, then one could probe a port already known to be 'open' to discover what program is actually running on that port.
>
> It may well be that such a thing exists, if it does then I don't know about it. But certainly I would find such a thing extremely useful, as merely scanning for open ports on a host is only half the story...
>
> What are everyone elses thoughts?

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