Penetration Testing: Re: Strange NMAP 4.0 Behavior

[Bernhard Mitterer <mailinglists () bmitt com>]

As far as I know is the option -PE only for the HostDiscovery part of
the scan. to initiate only a ping-sweep over the target net use the
option -sP

hth
b

Derek Nash wrote:
> I was just noticing when running an ICMP Echo scan (-PE) in NMAP
> version 4.00 that it seems to be including a SYN scan on all Service
> ports (-sS -F) scan as part of this scan type. I have witnessed this
> on 2 separate installs and systems, I couldn't find documentation that
> states this is a new default behavior.
>
> Has anyone else witnessed this strange behavior? If this is a new
> default behavior does anyone know if this behavior is defeatable?
>
> This seems like a bug to me, but I thought I would post here prior to
> submitting a bug report.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Derek Nash
>
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