Well, such statement is simply derived from my personal experience of doing application-layer UDP scanning. Never ran a proper benchmark to compare speed results to be honest.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Sebastian Krahmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:02:25AM +0000, Adrian P wrote: > > > * Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! * > > > http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/exploring-the-unknown-scanning-the-internet-via-snmp/ > > > > Hacking is not only about coming up with interesting solutions to > > problems, but also about exploring the unknown. It was this drive for > > knowledge philosophy that lead to surveying a significant sample of > > the Internet which allowed us to make some VERY interesting > > observations and get an idea of the current state of _remote SNMP > > hacking_. > > > > * Why SNMP? * > > > > 2.5 million random IP addresses were surveyed via SNMP. Why SNMP you > > might be asking? Well, there are several reasons. First of all SNMP is > > a UDP-based protocol which allows us to perform scanning at a much > > shorter time than via TCP-based protocols. Another advantage of > This is not true. I doubt there is any measurable advantage > of UDP vs. TCP scans if you do it right. > 2.5 million addresses can be done in a very short coffee break. > > Sebastian > > > -- > ~ > ~ perl self.pl > ~ $_='print"\$_=\47$_\47;eval"';eval > ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - SuSE Security Team > ~ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) > > -- pagvac | gnucitizen.org _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
