Perimiter firewall rules will tell you hosts & ports for external facing
website.  The internal DNS server will give you hosts running internal
facing websites.


> I have a client that needs to deploy security patches for Apache but
> are not 100% sure of which host houses the instance or the ports used
> either.
> 
> My question is how can I identify 100%  of the instances effectively
> and reasonably quietly without scanning nearly all of the ports on
> all the hosts?
> 
> I thought of pulling the ports enabled from the host based firewall
> solution and scanning these with nmap. But a port could be blocked
> through the firewall and an instance still listening locally although
> not remotely accessible providing the FW is running. These do exist
> for tools run locally and I've seen the FW fail too so want to ensure
> coverage for these also.
> 
> I like the idea of using Nessus (which I have) to perform a
> credentialed local scan of the ports listening on the server but I
> think this needs SMB and Admin shares enabled which I don't have.
> 
> Is there another way to do this?
> 
> Grateful for any ideas.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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