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Determination of OS/platform of a remote box
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| jsb_bh 2004-07-23, 2:50 am |
| Hello All,
Is there a way to determine the OS/platform of a box on the intranet/internet gi
ven that all the TCP/UDP/IP ports on the remote box are blocked (not available)?
Does ICMP request/response has any capability of achieving this?
Thanks a lot for your help and comments.
Rgds,
jsb_bh
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| Michael Vilain 2004-07-23, 7:50 am |
| In article <f092799f.0407230035.39d059de@posting.google.com>,
jsb_bh@yahoo.com (jsb_bh) wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to determine the OS/platform of a box on the intranet/internet
> gi
> ven that all the TCP/UDP/IP ports on the remote box are blocked (not
> available)?
>
> Does ICMP request/response has any capability of achieving this?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help and comments.
> Rgds,
> jsb_bh
You can only guess based upon a "fingerprint". nmap does this. Check
out the source code.
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