Re: nmap -sT localhost showing ephemeral ports?

[Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>]

08/02/2014 23:09:58 Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>:
> 20:17:03    bonsaiviking $ <ketilmore6>  turns out the nmap -p
> 1-65000 was finding open ports by accident because source port
> sometimes was equal to destination port. (birthday paradox)
> 20:17:07    bonsaiviking $ wtf
> 20:18:58    bonsaiviking $ confirmed on svn r32703
> 20:19:31    bonsaiviking $ but only with -sT

I just thought of solution - perhaps we should connect again to a 
port that seems to be open to get a different ephemeral port? If 
it's closed this time, we know that it was probably a false 
positive.

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