Re: options -sn not just pinging
David Fifield <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 09:17:55PM +0000, Christopher C Thornton wrote: > When I run this scan > > nmap -sn 192.168.9.0/25 > > nmap pings the address range (expected result ) > but it also sends syn packets to tcp port 443 on each of the IP’s > And it sends ack packets to port 80 -sn doesn't mean "ping scan"; it means "host discovery only." The default host discovery sends four probes: ICMP echo TCP SYN to port 443 TCP ACK to port 80 ICMP timestamp request If you only want ICMP echo, do -sn -PE. _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/