[66760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sniffer/promisc detector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Fri Jan 23 01:02:03 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Ruben van der Leij" <ruben-nanog@nutz.nl>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:00:23 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> > 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.
