> > > My results vary from 15 minuts to 1 hour. > > Mine too. So nmap sucks if you want to quickly identify daemons running on > strange ports. No big deal. This discussion wasn't about nmap to start with. > The point of the discussion was wether it made sense to run services on > non-standard ports to deter cr4x0rs.
Right anser is _it depends_ - do not rule out such option and do not use it as a panacea.