question regarding max retries

"Mike ." <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:43:19 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel
Message-ID <CY4PR13MB184636BA8138FBE0D412B868C6A80@CY4PR13MB1846.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>
hello all


hopefully this isnt a silly question. setting the max retries value to 1 when scanning my router, i figured i would see just one packet/probe in debuging output. this is what i am seeing. my question, is this normal behavoir for this setting?


m|ke





Service scan sending probe NBTStat to 192.168.0.1:53 (udp)
Service scan sending probe NBTStat to 192.168.0.1:68 (udp)
Service scan sending probe Help to 192.168.0.1:53 (udp)
Service scan sending probe Help to 192.168.0.1:68 (udp)
Service scan sending probe SIPOptions to 192.168.0.1:53 (udp)
Service scan sending probe SIPOptions to 192.168.0.1:68 (udp)
Service scan sending probe Sqlping to 192.168.0.1:53 (udp)
Service scan sending probe Sqlping to 192.168.0.1:68 (udp)
Service scan sending probe NTPRequest to 192.168.0.1:53 (udp)
Service scan sending probe NTPRequest to 192.168.0.1:68 (udp)




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