Re: a help required
> > nmap the machine, filter out known ports and try to connect to the
> > remaining ones. just my idea ...
>
> Before doing that, at very least inform the sysadmin of the machine or,
> better, ask him for permission to do it. People tend to get very nervous
> upon detecting portscans, especially if they come from a "trusted"
> computer on the internal "trusted" network. I, for one, would not be happy
> to have people in the network I administer doing port scanning without
> asking me or the other sysadmins.
>
that's sort of true. but if you ask the admin for permission to nmap the
servers, you can ask him straight for the proxy port - and that would be
probably the best way to go.
but what's life without some excitement? ;-)=)
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