Re: [vox] A web-based port scanner....?

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.MAPSorg>]

hi richard,


whenever you're looking for an application, go to www.freshmeat.net.
it's quite complete and even includes things like popularity (to see
what everyone else is using) and screen shots.  it's a well designed
site.  the administrators have been very responsive to my emails about
projects that have died or changed licenses.


a search on freshmeat for "scanner" should yield (untested) at least
two port scanners -- nmap (line based, hacker industry standard) and
saint (web based, aging.  never worked too well for me, confusing
interface).

satan is (as i understand it) a precursor to saint.

there's also something called sara which is like saint/satan.  these are
the people that put out tara, which is a cops-like system level security
auditor.  i've used tara and it's quite thorough.  a bit too through.

pete


begin Richard S. Crawford <rscrawford@mossroot.com> 
> Back when I was setting up my home network, I frequently made use of a web-based port scanner to check security.  It was great: it would scan the system and send me a report via e-mail letting me know of open ports and other conditions to address.  Wasn't a perfect tool, of course, but a good starting place.
> 
> I've lost the bookmark, and because a friend of mine informed me that there's an odd port open on my system which I can't seem to address with my firewall software, I'd like to check it again.
> 
> Does anyone know the tool that I'm talking about?  Or something like it?
> 
> -- 
> Sliante,
> Richard S. Crawford
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