On Sunday 21 October 2007, David Nicol wrote:
On 10/20/07, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
Yeah, nmap is "a software" worth checking out. Even more fun would be to scan your local subnet in RR for web servers to see what your neighbors computers are hosting.
nmap -p80 127.69.76.168/20
That would search your local subnet in roadrunner for webservers. I got /20 from the 255.255.240.0 subnet, and that IP address is the one the netgear gave as the public. Try it on your own.
When I first had access to roadrunner, I ran ethereal to find out what the stray packets working their way into my LAN were. (lots of arp requests.) TWC detected this somehow (perhaps dns lookups for internal routers? I don't know) and shut off our service until I talked with someone and promised not to do it again or something. Port scanning your neighbors is something that they really should detect, if they do or not.
Nothing wrong with simple network sniffing or portscanners.