Port scanning is not an exact science, although it should be.
With regard to UDP scanning, a port is determined as open if it does
not respond to probe attempts. This means that if it responds with an
ICMP port unreachable message, it's closed, it no response is
received, it is thought to be open.
There are a number of reasons that causes a lack of response to a UDP
scan, such as network issues, firewalls, luck! I find that UDP
scanning, especially over the Internet, is likely to cause conflicting
results.
What do you get for TCP results?
Are you scanning on the LAN or over the Internet?
Have you tried nmap?
Something worth trying as an exercise is to identify all of the open
ports on the local, target system (if you have access to it!). You
can use a number of tools to do this, but I like fport. It's a small
command line tools that lists the PID, port, protocol and parent
process. Run this tool and then compare the locally gathered results
to the port scanners.
On 25 Jun 2007 21:59:58 -0000, crumdub12@gmail.com <crumdub12@gmail.com> wrote:
A Chairde,
Havin, some issues with scanning stacks on my system.
1. Using Superscan4 , I scan stack UDP-TCP 1-65534 , Sometimes I
get no ports open , another time I get 49159 UDP Ports open, only get port
report, no attempt made to open any ports ... , when get open ports , I always
get 49159 UDP Ports ...... , use the scanner at 250msecs , takes around 16
hours to finish.
2. Using Languard, Nessus and Retina , get different scans from each tool,
any ideas why, how do I find out real ports open.. differences can be 10,000
ports
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