Re: Strange response from network

* Ben Timby (asp@webexc.com) wrote:

> Nmap simply uses the common ports database 
> to guess what service generally resides at the open port it found. For 
> instance, if I ran my FTP server on port 22, nmap would detect it as an 
> SSH server. I think there is a switch to have it grab the banner for 
> you, but I have not used this feature.

nmap -sV host

Best regards,
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David "caff" Coppa <caff AT openbeer DOT it>

OpenBSD: enforcing your security policy from VAX to i386
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