Nmap Hackers: Re: UDP Port Scanning

From: Lamont Granquist <lamontg_at_raven.genome.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 09:37:33 -0800

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Michael Dodwell wrote:
> I've been having a play with the UDP port scanning in nmap, and finding
> that it doesn't work. It works with Windows 9* fine (what port scanner
> doesn't) but if i say, port scan a router (snmp) or my local linux gateway,
> whatever port i pick it tells me it's open? (even tho it's not)
>
> I'm using "nmap2 -sU -P0 -p161 -v -v <ip>"
>
> Ideas?

When reporting these kinds of bugs, please make sure to include which
platform you are running nmap on.

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Received on Dec 21 1998