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Nmap Hackers: RE: Updated: ICMP Error Message Quoting Size (Identifying Sun Solaris,HP-UX 11.x and LINUX based machines)

RE: Updated: ICMP Error Message Quoting Size (Identifying Sun Solaris,HP-UX 11.x and LINUX based machines)

From: Ofir Arkin <ofir_at_itcon-ltd.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:48:55 +0200

>I would be careful about saying things like "all other operating systems".

I should have used "among the operating systems..."

>Also, your statement above implies that Linux, Solaris and HP-UX are not
>"closely follow[ing] RFC 1122 guidelines".

Should be: Parsing the RFC guidelines is not the same with...

>Thanks for the attribution. My paper (
>http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html ) doesn't
>try to provide a comprehensive list of how each OS reacts to each of the
>probes. I didn't see much point in that since Nmap already comes with a
>comprehensive and up-to-date list of hundreds of operating systems and how
>they react to the probes.

Well, I just wanted to give you the credit...

Well, I made a general rule again :)
Trapped the mine - boom. I should only been talking on the LINUX stuff.
Another lesson :)

Ofir

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