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Re: sniffer/promisc detector

  • From: Alexei Roudnev
  • Date: Fri Jan 23 01:04:22 2004 
>
> > My results vary from 15 minuts to 1 hour.
>
> Mine too. So nmap sucks if you want to quickly identify daemons running on
> strange ports. No big deal. This discussion wasn't about nmap to start
with.
> The point of the discussion was wether it made sense to run services on
> non-standard ports to deter cr4x0rs.

Right anser is _it depends_ - do not rule out such option and do not use it
as a panacea.