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I have installed nmap using the guidance on nmap.org here nmap --version yields Nmap version 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.4.6 openssl-3.0.13 ...
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On a fresh Debian 12 install, I have the following nftables configuration that I believe does the following when activated: traffic from localhost accepted established/related traffic accepted TCP ...
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When I run nmap 192.168.1.*, I get a print out of all devices on my network. The hostnames are not what I expect. For example, the hostname of the Linux desktop (192.168.1.203) I am currently on is ...
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I'm using Nmap in Kali Linux & trying to scan the top 100 ports for the given IP. When entered the below command, it does not display any open ports. But gives the 'Compiled without: Available ...
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OS is Debian on both servers. I found some examples showing how to measure TCP latency with nmap: nmap --packet-trace -p 22 192.168.0.10 But I'm getting some negative results for latency. ie, it will ...
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#!/usr/bin/bash echo "Give me your private IP and its mask";read given if [[ "$given" =~ ^([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}/{0,1}[0-9]{1,3} ]]; then echo "version 4" ...
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Sniffing with wireshark, I see a bunch of ARP and DNS requests. So why in the official doc it's written this: The list scan is a degenerate form of host discovery that simply lists each host of the ...
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For the past few days I've been trying to monitor my local network to look for new device connections. At first I thought of arpwatch, but if I'm not mistaken, it is worthless if not running on the ...
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First off, thanks for any help anyone can provide, I greatly appreciate it! I have a basic network I have set up for testing. It has pfSense acting as a Gateway/DHCP/DNS host and two Linux machines ...
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I'm very aware that you can specify an IP range and individual IPs for an NMap scan. However, I'm wondering if there's a command available to scan the LAN I'm connected to without specifying an IP. ...
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I'm building a Linux OVA on a VM to scan stuff with nmap. I'm using cron to keep my packages up to date: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get autoremove It's from my understanding ...
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Should ports that are in LISTENING, ESTABLISHED or not identified states appear as open ports in nmap? Doing some search on google I've found this: Any "ESTABLISHED" socket means that there ...
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I use Zenmap on Linux 6.0.0-kali3-amd64 which runs on Oracle VirtualBox to see open ports in Metasploitable2. When I save the Zenmap scan to /home I can successfully open the scan again until I reboot ...
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nmap is unable to find all android tablets connected to network There are around 40 tablets connected to the same wifi in 192.168.100.0/24. I used nmap to ping all devices in the subnet and find their ...
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➜ cat nmap/ports.nmap Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2022-10-21 11:30 IST Warning: 10.10.10.100 giving up on port because retransmission cap hit (10). Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.100 ...
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The domain name debian.debian point to 127.0.0.1 $ ping debian.debian PING debian.debian (127.0.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from debian.debian (127.0.1.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms 64 ...
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When I use Netdiscover on Kali Linux, it shows all my devices Brand as VMWare, Inc, why? Not just that, but the same happens when I use Nmap, Zenmap, net.show with Bettercap, nothing seems to show ...
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I need a Kali box on my network to be able to properly retrieve DNS suffixes from the DNS servers when using Nmap scans. When I run Nmap hostname scans from my own machine, I can watch the traffic in ...
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nmap can be used to detect open ports and services associated with it. Also, we can use -sV flag to determine the service version. Is there any way to disable this server version detection? A hacker ...
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I have made a fresh install of CentOS Stream 8 on a machine. This machine needs to connect to a Foreman Smart Proxy on port 443. If I run nmap immediately after machine boots up, it sees the port as ...
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When I launch an -sA scan of a certain IP address, it shows port "80" as "unfiltered". Code is below. sudo nmap -sA -vv -p 80 192.168.0.30 -Pn Host discovery disabled (-Pn). All ...
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I am trying to create a simple bash script that can run the "specific" port scan on mulitple IPs and Ports using nmap -p. The issue I am having is that when it reads the port# followed by ...
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I want to programatically process the results of nmap output but cannot work out how to take the output and extract just the details of the protocol or port tables shown in the two outputs below. I am ...
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I am trying to check for the offered ciphers with nmap: $ nmap -Pn --script ssl-enum-ciphers host1.example.org -p 443 Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-12-13 14:52 CET Nmap scan report ...
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I want to install a fork of nmap in Kali Linux, but I'm worried that it will conflict with the original program when I type nmap in the terminal. Can I change its name from nmap to nmap2?
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On page 35 of the Owasp testing guide, it says to use Nmap as: nmap –PN –sT –sV –p0-65535 192.168.1.100 but running this on my machine with the -PN -sT -p0 flags gives the following errors: Failed to ...
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I know the IP address and the root password of a server running Linux, but it has no network ports opened. I can ping it and it responds. How do I gain access to it?
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I'm trying to connect to a second-hand external wifi camera. It has an ethernet slot and a sticker with the MAC address but no other branding or model/serial numbers. I am trying to find its IP ...
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I'd like nmap to send ICMP timestamp requests to the host. To achieve this I use the command: nmap -PP "ip addr" But among requests generated by nmap there are no ICMP requests, only TCP ...
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Somehow I keep breaking ssh on my ubuntu servers and I can't figure out why. I have a ddns set up as myserver.asuscomm.com and the ports are forwarded on my router. One of them works perfectly, but ...
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I have two Debian 11 machines (192.168.0.2 & 192.168.0.3) connected to the same router (gateway at 192.168.0.1). I have disabled firewall (ufw) of both. But when I did a port scan via nmap from ...
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Using Ubuntu, I attempted to list all devices connected to my wifi with $ sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.83/24 Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-08-19 10:35 CDT Nmap scan report for amazon-...
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An excellent command shows only those IP addresses that are responding nmap -n -sn 192.168.1.0/24 -oG - | awk '/Up$/{print $2}' Looking through all these can be a pain to find a few that are not ...
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All of a sudden, nmap throws the following error after executing the canonical sudo nmap -sP 192.168.109.* : nmap: Target.cc:503: void Target::stopTimeOutClock(const timeval*): Assertion `htn....
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I have got an IP camera which, according to the manual, is supposed to have static IP address 192.168.1.110. To connect to it (and change the network settings) I configured my laptop to have static IP ...
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I use nmap to find devices on my network that has the port 5300 open. At first it worked great. I could find devices in no time, but then I rebooted my computer and now nmap just stalls during the ...
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When I ping, there is reply. $ ping 10.26.14.16 64 bytes from 10.26.140.160: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.525 ms When I ping with port, there is no reply. $ nmap -p 5016 10.26.14.16 5016/tcp closed ...
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I'm trying to understand which ports are actively listening (in use?) on my machine and don't really know what I'm doing. The three commands I've experimented with are nmap, ss (?netscan?) and lsof. ...
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I'm trying to determine which ports are in use with my machine. I found, online an article that listed one method as follows: $ sudo nmap -sT -O localhost I believedthis would give me a list of all ...
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I am using Try Hack Me to attempt to learn but they tell me to run nmap -A -p- and it is taking over an hour for a scan. I am really new to this and want to know is there a faster way to perform a ...
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I’m using nmap to ping 150k IP addresses, the problem is it takes too long to check the down IPs. It’s taking less than a second to check for the IPS that are up but if any are down it slows the ...
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I have an issue to take the result of the dig command and pass it to nmap command like: for ip in 'dig mydomain.com -t ns +short' do nmap $ip done
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I've tried to scan a network, behind two firewalls, for online hosts only. With fping I did: fping -a -q -g 192.168.222.0/24 and I got this output @>~]$ > fping -a -q -g 192.168.222.0/24 192.168....
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I'm attempting to run the following command on an Ubuntu box (ssh from Windows 10 PowerShell): sudo nmap -sU -O localhost Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-03-02 10:13 GMT Couldn't open ...
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So I have a Prometheus server which I use to capture input from port 512 UDP, I have it open, but now I have a problem checking which 512 UDP port on my network is the sender. I tried reading the nmap ...
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#! /bin/bash nmap sT 192.168.181.0/24 p 3306 >/dev/null oG MySQLscan cat MySQLscan | grep open > MySQLscan2 cat MySQLscan2 When i type this above script in text editor and save as ...
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I've set up an apache web server with port 80, I can access it very easily within the network by typing the IP x.x.x.x:80 in the browser (I know that I don't need to specify the HTTP port). However, ...
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Recently I had a problem, each time using sudo for nmap with --spoof-mac gives me an output that the host is down, which actually is not right because I know it is up. Why is that happening? Giving ...
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i have a quick question about tcp port states: suppose i am establishing a tcp connection to a server: source address/port should be 44.44.44.44:33456 destination address/port is 55:55:55.55:443. in ...
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I have a port forwarded home server running CentOS 7 on my home network. I am trying to fix some issues with it and tried to do an nmap host discovery scan but it doesn't work and says that all hosts ...
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