Re: open ports 25/tcp and 110/tcp

[Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 03 December 2003 11:32 pm, David F. Strauch wrote:

> Antony,
>
> I tried telnet from my WinXP machine to both open ports without any
> responce.  I'm hosting neither services on this machine.  It will be a
> gateway machine with a very minimal hardened installation.

Are you saying that from the same machine you did "nmap -sT -F -P0 -O 
xx.xx.xx.xx" and got a report including "SMTP port 25 open" and "POP3 port 
110 open", and also doing "telnet xx.xx.xx.xx 25" gives no response?

That makes no sense, because nmap -sT means a full TCP connect - the same as 
the telnet command would do.

Please confirm whether I am understanding correctly that you are doing both 
these tests from the same machine to the same address and getting different 
answers?

Antony.

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