From: Aaron J. Bedra (abedra@westervillelibrary.org)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 13:07:59 EDT
You guys should really be posting this on the nmap-hackers/nmap-dev
lists.
What version of nmap are you running? What OS and patch set?
One very key question is are you running any transparent caching proxy
servers? If so, your results will be incorrect.
Aaron J. Bedra
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:19 +0800, cy.wang wrote:
> can you telnet to its port 21 ? maybe it's an open port not for FTP service .
> or , nmap possibly got fooled by some msg that ids/firewall returned
>
> Regards,
>
> c.y. wang
> security analysis engineer
> Shanda Interactive Entertainment Co. Ltd, Shanghai, China.
> Phone: +86-21-50504740-5046
> Email: wangchunying@snda.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Jones" <sopiaz57@gmail.com>
> To: <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:47 PM
> Subject: nmap showing port 21 (ftp) open, but port is actually closed
>
>
> > Has anyone ever seen this before, nmap is showing port 21 to be open on
> > a machine on the internet, but 21 is not listening on that machine. It
> > happens to all machines I scan outside the local area network.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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