Talk:Idle scan

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Fair use rationale for Image:IPID Probe.GIF

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Final IdleScan.GIF

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyrighted text removed

The section I've just removed is taken verbatim from http://nmap.org/book/idlescan.html, even down to the final reference to "the next section", which made no sense in the placement in wikipedia. The original nmap article is clearly copyright (Copyright © 2010 by Insecure.Com LLC. All rights reserved, except where noted) and I can find no evidence of any creative-commons type licence being applied, so I've removed it, which I hope is an acceptable thing to do.

Tom Yates (talk) 09:10, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Improvement

Added references, jargoon explained, a new header with basic knowledge of TCP/IP added, evaluation requested --Pastore Italy (talk) 10:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have completed an evaluation, made a few improvements, tagged problems. I was not able to raise the rating mainly due to WP:NOTHOWTO. --Kvng (talk) 13:00, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Question about second stage of scan

If the port really was open, the idea is that the RST that the zombie sent to the attacker would have been of IPID number 31338, thus making the next probe show the number as 31339. I am quite sure this is an error, as it would only increase by one in the event that the port was closed or filtered.

I believe it is definitely wrong, as the numbers of the IPID match up with this picture, on which the diagram is likely based. http://www.ouah.org/Idlescan_Technique.gif — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.114.141.84 (talk) 23:03, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Confirming it is an error. It should say 37339 79.33.126.228 (talk) 13:29, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]