On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 21:51, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> > nmap scans hosts and reports if they are up, and what ports are open.
>
> Just a quick question. Does nmap rely on being able to connect to a
> particular website to download the TCP fingerprints, or are they
> included with the program when installed?
I think it's built in...
> For some reason I can't seem
> to use nmap when I'm behind the corporate firewall, even on local nodes.
> Thanks in advance.
My understanding is that nmap uses ICMP requests to figure out the
remote OS. Because ICMP is connectionless, if you're Nat'ing, you may
have a hard time getting the results back (depending on how the company
firewall is configured).
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