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Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:55:34 -0600
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:21:36PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
David Fifield wrote:OSs out there. Maybe just label it "Uptime guess"?I'd rather get two or three uptime values than one potentially inaccurate one. Let the person doing the scan decide.
That's the thing though, if you scan the host two or three times you're going to get uptimes that are consistent with each other. All the uptimes will be equally inaccurate, so there's no way to tell how inaccurate they are. If I take your point correctly, I agree with you that if we call it a "guess" then Nmap shouldn't ever omit printing the guess, so it doesn't appear like it's making a judgement as to how good the guess is. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Michael Pattrick (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Michael Pattrick (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Brandon Enright (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- RE: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Dario Ciccarone (dciccaro) (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 18)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets David Fifield (Aug 19)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Michael Pattrick (Aug 19)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Brandon Enright (Aug 19)
- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Michael Pattrick (Aug 19)
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- Re: Uptime estimates and TCP timestamp offsets Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Aug 18)