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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Frank.Pikelner@××××××××.ca wrote: |
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>> Is there a way to detect programmatically whether the local host has |
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>> a firewall enabled? |
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> nmap can return enough informatin to surmize that. It may even be |
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> able to tell you straight out. I'm not that familiar with all its |
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> switches. |
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> Running nmap -v -P0 host will give you enough to make a good guess. |
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> So maybe parsing nmap output can be done programmatically. |
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There is... in the August issue of SysAdmin, there was an article on how |
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to write a PERL frontend for NMAP... it was pretty cool and pretty easy |
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(for the simple stuff). The article name is "Vulnerability Assessments |
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with NMAP & Nessus". |
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I know the code you can find online, and maybe by now you can find the |
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article itself. |
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bryce |
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