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Re: Banner Grabbing

To: "Pravin Jayakumar" <pravinjay@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Banner Grabbing
From: "Jamie Riden" <jamesr@europe.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:49:21 +1300
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On 22/12/06, Pravin Jayakumar <pravinjay@gmail.com> wrote:
Jamie,

"telnet victim.example.com <port>' will often get you a banner"

This will give the type of web application u r using and not the OS, if am
right

True - however the OS 'banner' is not usually exposed via services so
you need to infer from individual services and maybe stuff like
p0f/nmap.

Or is there some special sense to "OS banner grabbing" which I'm missing?

cheers,
Jamie
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