Re: netstat & port scanning
Re: netstat & port scanning
- Subject: Re: netstat & port scanning
- From: Josh Graessley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:43:47 -0700
netstat doesn't do a portscan. A portscan attempts to connect to
various ports to determine what's open. netstat uses sysctls to get
information from the kernel about which ports are open. I believe the
network utility performs a classic port scan, iterating through the
ports attempting to connect to each one.
The ip6stat structure is a private structure. This structure is
likely to change from release to release. Since netstat is recompiled
by Apple with every release where the structure changes, this isn't a
problem. If a third party used that data structure, they would find
that their program broke every time we changed the data structure.
-josh
On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Apple Developer wrote:
Hi,
I need to get the status of a port (open or closed). I have
attempted to get netstat from the darwin sources to compile, but
found problems in that 'ip6stat' structure was not found (a .h file
is not found in 10.4). Does anyone else know of any source that
can do a port scan like the network utility does?
Thank you,
Randy
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