John ... Some recent releases of 'nmap' lack that option. (I say "recent" describing systems which may still be on the 2.4 kernel, so no telling how far back the utilities may be.) But thanks for the tip!
-- R, John Summerfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 08/03/2006 10:22 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> From John Summerfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Ports Marcy Cortes wrote: > Thanks all. Richards iptables suggestion did the trick (with the IP > changed to the IP of the server). > > It was TCP. It was done in order to lock out the WAS admin console and > instead force that to go through an https server on the same instance > that would authenticate the user via what we call ChannelSecure > (Siteminder to Active Directory piece of sw) > A worthwhile check, with a twist I learned only recently, is to do a port scan with nmap. For ages I've been saying, nmap -O .... The twist is nmap -sV .... See the difference? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo nmap -O -p 80 ns Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-08-04 10:21 WST Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port Interesting ports on ns.demo.lan (192.168.9.4): PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http Device type: general purpose Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X OS details: Linux 2.4.18 - 2.6.4 (x86) Uptime 0.855 days (since Thu Aug 3 13:49:40 2006) Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.219 seconds [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo nmap -sV -O -p 80 ns Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-08-04 10:21 WST Warning: OS detection will be MUCH less reliable because we did not find at least 1 open and 1 closed TCP port Interesting ports on ns.demo.lan (192.168.9.4): PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.0.52 ((White Box)) Device type: general purpose Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X OS details: Linux 2.4.18 - 2.6.4 (x86) Uptime 0.856 days (since Thu Aug 3 13:49:40 2006) Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.178 seconds -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
