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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition
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Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

by Paulino Calderon
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
21h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

  1. To perform a full port scan with the timing template set to aggressive, and without the reverse DNS resolution (-n) or ping (-Pn), use the following command:
# nmap -T4 -n -Pn -p- 74.207.244.221  
  1. Note the scanning time at the end of the report:
   Nmap scan report for 74.207.244.221    Host is up (0.11s latency).    Not shown: 65532 closed ports    PORT     STATE SERVICE    22/tcp   open  ssh    80/tcp   open  http    9929/tcpopen  nping-echo    Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 60.84 seconds 
  1. Now, compare the running time that we get if we don't skip any tests:
# nmap -p- scanme.nmap.org    Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (74.207.244.221)    Host is up (0.11s latency).    Not shown: 65532 closed ports    PORT     STATE SERVICE  22/tcp ...
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ISBN: 9781786467454