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Re: usual iploggers miss some variable stealth scans

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralf Laue)
Fri Jan 21 18:59:01 2000

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Oliver Friedrichs wrote:

> You'd be suprised at how untrue this is (the "often" part).  While much
> of whats publically available may do this, there are many other
> variables in a stack unrelated to TCP state that can be used to identify
> an OS - and are also virtually impossible for someone to fix...

An interesting open source tool for identifying the target OS can be
found at:
http://www.apostols.org/projectz/queso/

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