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Network Scanning Cookbook
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Network Scanning Cookbook

by Sairam Jetty
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to identify open ports

The following are the six port states that are present in Nmap:

  • open: This means that the port is functioning and has a service running or accessing it. The service can thus accept any connections made as per the protocol and service in use on this port.
  • closed: A closed port is not being accessed by any service, there is no service running on it. Thus, no connections made externally will be successful on these ports.
  • filtered: This status is associated with ports from which no response was received due to the packet filtering mechanism present within the network.  This might be caused by an intermediate network protection device.
  • unfiltered: This status is associated with the ports that Nmap was not able to determine ...
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