Re: Regarding OS detection

[Josh Amishav-Zlatin <jamuse () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Akash Das <akash210197 () gmail com> wrote:

> Hello Dan,
> I used -sU with -D the decoy method to bypass the firewall protection.
> Does this would help me in bypassing that obstruction which is I think the
> firewall.
Hi Akash,

The -D option will not bypass a firewall. It simply makes it appear to the
target that the decoys specified are scanning it as well. The goal is to
make it harder for the target to know which IP was actually scanning and
which are innocent decoys.

- Josh

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