transient services on high ports could do this. firewall manipulation could
as well.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:35 AM, [SiN] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ive been trying to use nesses to keep a ports list of open ports and
> systems on my public network.  When I go talk to an owner of a system I am
> told those ports have been open for years and they actually connect to them
> on a daily basis during their daily work.  I could see an instance where a
> port was seen one day and not the next then back again.  But ive been seeing
> more and more ports open up as new ports but in fact have been there for a
> long time.  Im also seeing instances where ports are seen during the scan, I
> check later with nmap or try and connect through telnet (to tcp ports) and
> its closed (most cases the ports are listed as UNKNOWN).
>
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