On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Brad Beyenhof <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Michael Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Heres what is in question! >> >> Port Protocol State service >> >> 12345 tcp filtered netbus >> 27374 tcp filtered subseven >> 31337 tcp filtered Elite > > Since all three ports are reported as being 'filtered,' that means > that they're all blocked by a firewall on the machine you're scanning. > The service names just come from a local flat-file database; unless > you put "-sV" in your nmap command line it doesn't actually probe > ports for the services they're running.
Can't filtered also mean that the port is not necessarily blocked, but that there is no software listening on that port? > > -- > Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com > Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
