[51518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurtis Lindqvist)
Thu Aug 29 04:03:55 2002
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:59:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kurtis Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <200208272148.g7RLmOwQ009122@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > How can I recognize someone by doing a portscan?
>
> http://www.insecure.org/nmap
>
> It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries.
>
> (I'm assuming you mean in the same sense as "you can identify a machine's
> vendor based on the EUI-64..." - neither a portscan or a MAC address will
> tell you who's machine it is, as far as I know (although doing an nmap to find
> ports that will tell you who it is... hmm... ;)
I am inclined to agree. I am pretty sure I will find out more about the
user with a portscan than I will by knowing the type of his NIC...
- kurtis -
