> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 08:33:57PM +0200, Giovanni Schmid wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:46:06PM +0200, Giovanni Schmid wrote:
>> >>  Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I tested Nmap 5.21 on Oracle Solaris 11 and found that it only
>> >> apparently works. Actually, many different scan sessions (with
>> >> different options and  targets) got wrong results. For ex., the
>> >> following scan is related to a host with 22/tcp (SSH) and  111/tcp
>> >> (rpcbind) open; however the two services are not detected. Morever,
>> >> turning off the -PN  option results in an host apparently blocking up
>> >> ping probes. This is not the case, instead.
>> >>
>> >> # nmap -A 172.16.3.42
>> >>
>> >> Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org/ ) at 2011-05-16 20:13 CEST
>> >> Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping
>> probes,
>> >> try -PN
>> >> Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.60 seconds
>> >>
>> >> # nmap -PN -A 172.16.3.42
>> >>
>> >> Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org/ ) at 2011-05-16 20:14 CEST
>> >> Nmap scan report for 172.16.3.42
>> >> Host is up.
>> >> All 1000 scanned ports on 172.16.3.42 are filtered
>> >> Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details
>> >>
>> >> TRACEROUTE (using proto 1/icmp)
>> >> HOP RTT    ADDRESS
>> >> 1   ... 30
>> >>
>> >> # nmap -PN -sS 172.16.3.42
>> >>
>> >> Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org/ ) at 2011-05-16 20:34 CEST
>> >> Nmap scan report for 172.16.3.42
>> >> Host is up.
>> >> All 1000 scanned ports on 172.16.3.42 are filtered
>> >>
>> >> Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 201.16 seconds
>> >
>> > Thank you for reporting this. We need some more information from you.
>> Do
>> > the wrong results happen every time, or only sometimes? Is it only
>> this
>> > IP address that has the problem, or other LAN addresses, or all
>> > addresses?
>>
>> Hi David.
>>
>> The wrong results happen every time, and for different hosts in the same
>> LAN. There were no firewalls among the targets and the scanning host.
>> Moreover, I compared the results for the above targets against another
>> scanning host running Nmap 4.x on Linux in the same LAN, and in this
>> case the results were correct.
>>
>> > It looks like you are getting no reponses at all from the target. Is
>> > there a firewall or something similar in the way? What output do you
>> see
>> > when you run the command
>> >    ssh -v 172.16.3.42
>>
>> At  this moment I cannot run the above command, since I am at home and
>> 172.16.3.42 in not reachable through the Internet. However 172.16.3.42
>> is a Solaris 11 box too, and its sshd should be
>>
>> Sun_SSH_1.3, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090801f
>>
>> or above.
>
> I didn't mean to ask for the SSH version number; it's just that I would
> be surprised if ssh works at all if Nmap can get no responses.
>
> Can you try the scan again, this time with --unprivileged?
>
> David Fifield
>
OK, I will do the unprivileged scan on Monday and will let you know.
However, SSH connections from the scanning host to the targets  worked
perfectly during the test. I can say this with confidence because I used
SSH to log to the targets before, during and after the scan sessions and
it worked.

Giovanni Schmid

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