<OFFTOPIC??> nmap -sT scan freezes HP-UX server ???

Sorry if this is off topic but I think you may be interested to know this
problem that I had with nmap.

I wanted to know the number of servers in a large intra-net of the company I
work for. So I started an nmap scan wit the following command:

%nmap -sT -O -p 1-1024 -n -m nmaplog.txt XXX.YYY.*.*

The next day, the people from the field operations department told me that the
scan had caused the HP-UX servers to freeze but could not explain why this could
have happened.

My questions: Is it reasonable to expect something like this to happen ? Have
any of you heard anything like this before ??

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Agustin Navarro P.
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