From: "William Hubbs" <w.hubbs@comcast.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Is ICMP important?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:12:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040212181251.GA5131@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040212174312.GO710@rednote.net>
Hi all,
I wouldn't go running nmap blindly on another computer without the owner's permission. If you do and the owner complains to your isp you might get shut down for abuse -- they might think you are scanning the ports on the other machine to try to find a way to compromise it.
I know this because a few years ago when I was running redhat linux (I think it was version 6 or so), someone got into my computer and did this and I was shut down. Fortunately the isp let me back on after I talked to them about what was going on.
William
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:43:12PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Also, Chuck, recognize that you can use nmap on any address. So, you can
> run:
>
> nmap -P0 [ip.address]
>
> and see what ports are and aren't open on any machine. Might be handy
> along with the traceroute results.
>
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` Chuck Hallenbeck
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