Yes, Antony this is the case. I have only one WinXP machine that I am testing with. I'm testing the external interface eth0 and I have unplugged eth1 from the hub. When I nmap -sT -p 25,110 -P0 xx.xx.xx.xx I get the following output form nmap: Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap ) Interesting ports on (67.153.34.147): Port State Service 25/tcp open smtp 110/tcp open pop-3 Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1 second ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:39 PM Subject: Re: open ports 25/tcp and 110/tcp > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 11:32 pm, David F. Strauch wrote: > > > Antony, > > > > I tried telnet from my WinXP machine to both open ports without any > > responce. I'm hosting neither services on this machine. It will be a > > gateway machine with a very minimal hardened installation. > > Are you saying that from the same machine you did "nmap -sT -F -P0 -O > xx.xx.xx.xx" and got a report including "SMTP port 25 open" and "POP3 port > 110 open", and also doing "telnet xx.xx.xx.xx 25" gives no response? > > That makes no sense, because nmap -sT means a full TCP connect - the same as > the telnet command would do. > > Please confirm whether I am understanding correctly that you are doing both > these tests from the same machine to the same address and getting different > answers? > > Antony. > > -- > All matter in the Universe can be placed into one of two categories: > > 1. Things which need to be fixed. > 2. Things which need to be fixed once you've had a few minutes to play with > them. > > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me. > > > >
