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RE: how nmap can know my firewalled servers ?

Subject: RE: how nmap can know my firewalled servers ?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:11:05 -0400
Hi Alexey.

Are you running Nmap from a machine inside your firewall?  Perhaps the
same machine which is running the services?

Very few firewall implementations block localhost.

-Jay Stapleton. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Eremenko [mailto:al4321@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:24 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: how nmap can know my firewalled servers ?

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 ?

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