From: David Coppa (caff@openbeer.it)
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 08:09:58 EDT
* Ben Timby (asp@webexc.com) wrote:
> Nmap simply uses the common ports database
> to guess what service generally resides at the open port it found. For
> instance, if I ran my FTP server on port 22, nmap would detect it as an
> SSH server. I think there is a switch to have it grab the banner for
> you, but I have not used this feature.
nmap -sV host
Best regards,
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