On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 21:03, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > I think the problem on running 'nmap localhost" is that it will ALSO list > those services that are listening on the LOOPBACK intreface, thus you get a > kind of "false positive". I don't know if there's an option to avoid > this..or perhaps running nmap with your external ip address? > I've just run nmap with the ip address used by my ethernet card and less is shown than with nmap localhost, so I think you are right. > I always like to check with ShieldsUP... > ..but that told John he had ports 21 and 23 with servers on. I'm a bit suspicious. Chris
