On Wed Sep 20 2006 at 14:21, A User wrote:

>> A find_service_udp would be much more intrusive.
> But again - what about those devices where we can't get local accounts?

Can you afford to crash them?

>  There are devices that run on non-standard UDP ports

You mean *standard* services or non standard ports??
If this is known, that we can enhance the detection of a couple of
protocols. e.g. if some company implements a DNS server on port 5353, 
we can add the necessary probe in dns_server.nasl

>> Can you afford to run nmap -sU -sV for days to get this true picture?
>> netstat -p would give it instantly.

> For a complete review that needs to be performed where I technically 
> cannot or am prohibited by the system admin to do this, then yes!

I wonder how many people can afford that.

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