From: Jamie Riden (jamesr@europe.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2006 - 23:49:21 EST
On 22/12/06, Pravin Jayakumar <pravinjay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jamie,
>
> "telnet victim.example.com <port>' will often get you a banner"
>
> This will give the type of web application u r using and not the OS, if am
> right
True - however the OS 'banner' is not usually exposed via services so
you need to infer from individual services and maybe stuff like
p0f/nmap.
Or is there some special sense to "OS banner grabbing" which I'm missing?
cheers,
Jamie
-- Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr@europe.com / jamie.riden@gmail.com NZ Honeynet project - http://www.nz-honeynet.org/
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