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From: Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@×××××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:45:41
Message-Id: 1125470325.6068.0.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network by John Jolet
1 On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote:
2 > On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote:
3 >
4 > > John Jolet wrote:
5 > >
6 > >> yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you
7 > >> can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta
8 > >> have SOME port open.
9 > >>
10 > >
11 > > As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why
12 > > should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?
13 > >
14 > >
15 > >> Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which
16 > >> one is the solaris or sunos machine...
17 > >>
18 > >
19 > > Sure, but that's not what he's looking for...
20 > >
21 > perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression
22 > that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet,
23 > but the exact ip wasn't known.
24
25 ... what about arp?
26
27 Just a thought
28 Frank
29 --
30 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network John Jolet <john@×××××.net>