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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:00:48
Message-Id: 12CAFC93-126B-48E9-9F5B-40A0D60B6F96@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network by Christoph Gysin
1 On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote:
2
3 > John Jolet wrote:
4 >
5 >> yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you
6 >> can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta
7 >> have SOME port open.
8 >>
9 >
10 > As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why
11 > should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet?
12 >
13 >
14 >> Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which
15 >> one is the solaris or sunos machine...
16 >>
17 >
18 > Sure, but that's not what he's looking for...
19 >
20 perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression
21 that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet,
22 but the exact ip wasn't known.
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@×××××××××.cz>