Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

All of the tasks in this recipe can be done via a single line command; they are shown separately here to better illustrate their functionalities and results:

1. First, we want to see whether the server is answering to a ping or if the host is up:

# nmap -sn 192.168.56.11

2. Now, that we know that it's up, let's see which ports are open:

# nmap 192.168.56.11

3. Now we will tell Nmap to ask the server for the versions of services it is running and to guess the operating system based on that:

# nmap -sV -O 192.168.56.11

We can see ...