Is ICMP important?

[Janina Sajka]

I think you have a right to debug. That's not cracking. If someone has
such a knee jerk reaction to that, you probably don't want to do
business with them.

William Hubbs writes:
> From: "William Hubbs" <w.hubbs at comcast.net>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I wouldn't go running nmap blindly on another computer without the owner's permission.  If you do and the owner complains to your isp you might get shut down for abuse -- they might think you are scanning the ports on the other machine to try to find a way to compromise it.
> 
> I know this because a few years ago when I was running redhat linux (I think it was version 6 or so), someone got into my computer and did this and I was shut down.  Fortunately the isp let me back on after I talked to them about what was going on.
> 
> William
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:43:12PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Also, Chuck, recognize that you can use nmap on any address. So, you can
> > run:
> > 
> > nmap -P0 [ip.address]
> > 
> > and see what ports are and aren't open on any machine. Might be handy
> > along with the traceroute results.
> > 
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