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Re: Nmap udp scan


From: "Jason Ross" <algorythm () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:16:04 -0400

On 4/25/07, Kain, Becki (B.) <bkain1 () ford com> wrote:
According the docs at nmap.org, I thought this should work:

[/usr/bin] @fred: $ nmap -p U:161 bob.ford.com
<snip>
I thought U: was for udp, not tcp?   Can anyone shed some light?
thanks

It is, but you've not specified to do a udp scan, so nmap is using the
default tcp syn scan. Adding a ' -sU ' should remedy that.


--
jason


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