nmap on solaris does not detect all ports

Mike_the_Man · 03-17-2004, 08:53 AM

I am running port scans on my servers to make sure I don't have any "extra" ports open.

Nmap is not detecting the port that my application on the server runs on. I can telnet to the target on that port, but when i run nmap on the target, the port does not show up.
If I specify a port it will see it, nmap -p <port> target, but on a regular nmap run, it does not.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

FragInHell · 03-17-2004, 12:46 PM

I think by default Nmap only scans the a normal range of known ports. You can specify a higher port range for example -p 1024- would scan all ports from 1024 upwards (this would take a long time).