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Comment by eqvinox

Uh, you know you can scan UDP ports just fine, right? Hosts reply with an ICMP destination unreachable / port unreachable (3/3 in IPv4, 1/4 in IPv6) if the port is closed. Discarding packets won't send that ICMP error.

It's slow to scan due to ICMP ratelimiting, but you can parallelize.

(Sure, you can disable / firewall drop that ICMP error… but then you can do the same thing with TCP RSTs.)

parent eqvinox 9 months ago

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