Re: Help understanding a trace of an nmap scan

From: Jose Maria Lopez (jkerouac@bgsec.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 13:35:31 EDT


El lun, 06 de 09 de 2004 a las 16:11, Richard Moore escribió:
> I wonder if anyone can help me make sense of this packet trace. It shows
> nmap running a connect scan against port 13 of a host. The part I don't
> understand is why there are 3 RST packets sent to the target machine?
>

It looks as if nmap is sending RST packets until it receives a FIN
packet from the portscanned machine. What options do you use with
nmap to obtain this traffic?

> If it helps anyone the target host is a Debian box running 2.4.26 Linux
> kernel and the source machine was a RedHat box running 2.4.7-10. The
> version of nmap used is 3.48.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich.

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