Nmap Development: Re: Possible error message bug in nmap-4.11 on Gentoo

[Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>]

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.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson () op5 se
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