Diman Todorov wrote:
>> Well, you *are* telling nmap to do a ping-scan (-sP) which doesn't use
>> ports, but then you specify ports as well.
> This is not correct.
> from the nmap man page:
> <snip>
> The -sP option sends an ICMP echo request and a TCP
> packet to
> port 80 by default. When executed by an unprivileged
> user, a SYN
> packet is sent (using a connect() call) to port 80 on the
> </snip>
>
> IMHO -sP should respect -p
>
Touché. I should rtfm more carefully or, as in this case, at all :-)
I'm still not sure it makes sense though, unless you use the scan option
to control output (i.e. make hosts responding to any of the tcp-ports
given in the range show as "up", but nothing else). Oh well. I'm sure
it'll all turn out for the best.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson_at_op5.se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
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