Re: Call for testers: Nping 0.1BETA1 Released.

["Luis M." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

David Fifield wrote:
> In our ping probe effectiveness research we found that if you don't have
> a priori knowledge of a host, the best single non-root probes are SYN to
> port 443 or 80, with 443 being slightly better. These are not bad
> probes, finding about 40% of hosts that respond to any kind of probe.
> ICMP echo is the only thing better; it gets about 60%.
>
> http://www.bamsoftware.com/wiki/Nmap/EffectivenessOfPingProbes#a-20090525
>
> David Fifield
>   

Exactly. I used your research to choose some of the default values (e.g:
default UDP src and dst port). In TPC, I chose port 80 over 443 because
I think users will be a lot let surprised to see port 80 being targeted
by default.

Luis.



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