May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
21h 33m
English
Ping scans are used for detecting live hosts in networks. Nmap's default ping scan (-sP) sends TCP SYN, TCP ACK, and ICMP packets to determine if a host is responding, but if a firewall is blocking these requests, it will be treated as offline. Fortunately, Nmap supports a scanning technique named the TCP SYN ping scan that is very handy to probe different ports in an attempt to determine if a host is online or at least has more permissive filtering rules.
This recipe will talk about the TCP SYN ping scan and its related options.
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