Re: how nmap can know my firewalled servers ?

I am assuming you are using a DROP rule on your firewall.  NMAP knows
that if it does not receive a response for a TCP connection then it is
firewalled.  Dropping traffic at a firewall violates RFC and makes it
much easier to know when there is a firewall between the scanner and the
end host.  I recommend using REJECT

-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable

That will conform to RFC (I'm pretty sure) and will make it harder to
detect a firewall with NMAP.

Alexey Eremenko wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> I know that "nmap" can show open ports. But nmap also shows my
> firewalled ports !
> How?
>
> Since some servers (like apache) are firewalled with iptables, how can
> nmap know wherever
> my system run the service with open port, filtered port or doesn't run
> it at all ?
>  
-- 
Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA


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