From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAMLt-0008T0-A1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:45:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7V6gNdS016468; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:42:23 GMT Received: from mail.t-systems.cz (mail.t-systems.cz [212.67.76.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7V6aSQa028503 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:36:29 GMT Received: from mefisto.t-systems.cz (faust.t-systems.cz [10.246.110.12]) by mail.t-systems.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B73899DA for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:38:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from andre.t-systems.cz ([10.246.112.240]) by mefisto.t-systems.cz with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:38:40 +0200 Received: andre.t-systems.cz 10.246.112.240 from 10.246.111.45 10.246.111.45 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.5.6944 Received: from frankies by andre.t-systems.cz; 31 Aug 2005 08:38:45 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network From: Frank Schafer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <12CAFC93-126B-48E9-9F5B-40A0D60B6F96@jolet.net> References: <43147285.1090009@wht.com.au> <43147763.802@gmx.ch> <200508301018.52929.john@jolet.net> <4314D63F.7030303@gmx.ch> <12CAFC93-126B-48E9-9F5B-40A0D60B6F96@jolet.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:38:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1125470325.6068.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Aug 2005 06:38:40.0905 (UTC) FILETIME=[A0126F90:01C5ADF6] X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0, required 5, autolearn=) X-MailScanner-From: frank.schafer@t-systems.cz X-Archives-Salt: c5f8bbca-bc2e-49b4-b79b-e87ef0eb112d X-Archives-Hash: 959e653870039199adc00dda12cb8df3 On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:51 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Aug 30, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Christoph Gysin wrote: > > > John Jolet wrote: > > > >> yeah, if it's got a firewall disallowing icmp responses. then you > >> can do nmap -P0 to find it. ping would never find it. It's gotta > >> have SOME port open. > >> > > > > As far as I've read his post, there's no firewall involved. So why > > should he do portscans in all hosts on the subnet? > > > > > >> Also, nmap can do os fingerprinting and probably show you which > >> one is the solaris or sunos machine... > >> > > > > Sure, but that's not what he's looking for... > > > perhaps I read the initial post wrong...I was under the impression > that he had a headless sun box with a static ip on a known subnet, > but the exact ip wasn't known. ... what about arp? Just a thought Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list