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Re: strange flickering ports



On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:14:54AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> >Hi...
> >
> >I have a box with something listening to "flickering" ports.  nmap
> >reports various random ports open from run to run.  I can't telnet to
> >them and ID w/ netstat, because they're gone the instant nmap finds
> >them.
> Hi,
> 
> I have this regularily too. I would like to see this explained, but
> perhaps it is just an error in nmap?

I've seen this too. My inital guess was that these were incoming ftp
ports from active ftp sessions but that didn't really make sense on this
particular box. Then I think I upgraded nmap and the problem seemed to
go away.

> 
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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