On Wednesday 03 December 2003 19:39, Antony Stone wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 12:28 am, Jeffrey Laramie wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 19:14, Michael Gale wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Maybe because you are running nmap from a windows box ? > > > > > > Have you tried a windows machine ? > > > > Yes, and it tasted like chicken. > > > > > > > > Seriously, that may be a good point. Make sure there isn't anything > > running on the sending box that might interfere with the test. I've had > > screwed up nmap tests when the sending box filtered certain ports. > > This I can understand, but what puzzles me is that David is saying that > from the same test machine, doing nmap -sT, and telnet xx.xx.xx.xx 25, are > giving different results. > > nmap -sT does a TCP connect, and telnet does a TCP connect, so how is it > possible for one to say that the port is open, but the other not to show > the welcome banner? > > Antony. I don't know. _shrug_ I'd still like to find out what a packet sniffer sees during the nmap test.
