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Subject: Re: UDP scanner
From: Brian Mitchell <brian @ firehouse . net>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:01:50 -0400 (EDT)
To: Lyndon David <lyndond @ sentinet . co . uk>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <3406C623 . D02530A1 @ sentinet . co . uk>

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Lyndon David wrote:

I've written code that does this. I'm also almost positive the Ballista
scanner includes code that does exactly this thing.

> Hi
> 
> Quick question,
> 
> Does anyone know of a UDP port scanner. I know that this is
> a much harder job than a TCP port scanner. If you fire off
> an arbitary UDP packet at a machine and you get an ICMP message
> back saying nothing listening then you know that that port is
> dead. If you get nothing back then either something is listening
> and swallowed it or the packet got lost or the filtering is
> set not to send ICMP replies.
> 
> Anyone know of any software that does this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Lyndon



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