Folk, I can use a little help to understand the following output from nmap.
As far as I can discern, IOD = Initial Object Descriptor and EID = Endpoint Identifier. So does this show that the UDP packet is getting past IOD #1? What about IOD #2? What are EID 8, EID 18 & etc.? Thanks, ... Peter E. newton:~# nmap -sU -p1194 --packet-trace peasthope.yi.org Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-07-25 08:18 PDT SENT (5.1360s) ICMP 137.82.26.91 > 139.142.97.80 Echo request (type=8/code=0) ttl=59 id=24449 iplen=28 SENT (5.1360s) TCP 137.82.26.91:43568 > 139.142.97.80:80 A ttl=43 id=18482 iplen=40 seq=4225371038 win=4096 ack=324668318 RCVD (5.1380s) TCP 139.142.97.80:80 > 137.82.26.91:43568 RA ttl=255 id=54305 iplen=40 seq=324668318 win=4096 ack=4225371038 NSOCK (5.2490s) UDP connection requested to 137.82.1.1:53 (IOD #1) EID 8 NSOCK (5.2490s) Read request from IOD #1 [137.82.1.1:53] (timeout: -1ms) EID 18 NSOCK (5.2500s) UDP connection requested to 137.82.26.240:53 (IOD #2) EID 24 NSOCK (5.2500s) Read request from IOD #2 [137.82.26.240:53] (timeout: -1ms) EID 34 NSOCK (5.2500s) Write request for 44 bytes to IOD #1 EID 43 [137.82.1.1:53]: .............80.97.142.139.in-addr.arpa..... NSOCK (5.2510s) nsock_loop() started (timeout=500ms). 5 events pending NSOCK (5.2520s) Callback: CONNECT SUCCESS for EID 24 [137.82.26.240:53] NSOCK (5.2520s) Callback: CONNECT SUCCESS for EID 8 [137.82.1.1:53] NSOCK (5.2520s) Callback: WRITE SUCCESS for EID 43 [137.82.1.1:53] NSOCK (5.7540s) nsock_loop() started (timeout=500ms). 2 events pending NSOCK (6.2540s) nsock_loop() started (timeout=500ms). 2 events pending NSOCK (6.7540s) nsock_loop() started (timeout=500ms). 2 events pending NSOCK (7.2540s) nsock_loop() started (timeout=495ms). 2 events pending NSOCK (7.7500s) Write request for 44 bytes to IOD #1 EID 51 [137.82.1.1:53]: .............80.97.142.139.in-addr.arpa..... NSOCK (7.7510s) nsock_loop() started (timeout=500ms). 3 events pending NSOCK (7.7510s) Callback: WRITE SUCCESS for EID 51 [137.82.1.1:53] NSOCK (7.8210s) Callback: READ SUCCESS for EID 18 [137.82.1.1:53] (123 bytes) NSOCK (7.8210s) Read request from IOD #1 [137.82.1.1:53] (timeout: -1ms) EID 58 SENT (7.8390s) UDP 137.82.26.91:43548 > 139.142.97.80:1194 ttl=59 id=39917 iplen=28 SENT (7.9440s) UDP 137.82.26.91:43549 > 139.142.97.80:1194 ttl=42 id=61356 iplen=28 Interesting ports on 139.142.97.80: PORT STATE SERVICE 1194/udp open|filtered unknown Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8.165 seconds newton:~# http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

