Re: [Full-disclosure] Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP!

["Adrian P" <unknown.pentester@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, such statement is simply derived from my personal experience of
doing application-layer UDP scanning. Never ran a proper benchmark to
compare speed results to be honest.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:02:25AM +0000, Adrian P wrote:
>
>  > * Exploring the UNKNOWN: Scanning the Internet via SNMP! *
>  > 
> http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/exploring-the-unknown-scanning-the-internet-via-snmp/
>  >
>  > Hacking is not only about coming up with interesting solutions to
>  > problems, but also about exploring the unknown. It was this drive for
>  > knowledge philosophy that lead to surveying a significant sample of
>  > the Internet which allowed us to make some VERY interesting
>  > observations and get an idea of the current state of _remote SNMP
>  > hacking_.
>  >
>  > * Why SNMP? *
>  >
>  > 2.5 million random IP addresses were surveyed via SNMP. Why SNMP you
>  > might be asking? Well, there are several reasons. First of all SNMP is
>  > a UDP-based protocol which allows us to perform scanning at a much
>  > shorter time than via TCP-based protocols. Another advantage of
>  This is not true. I doubt there is any measurable advantage
>  of UDP vs. TCP scans if you do it right.
>  2.5 million addresses can be done in a very short coffee break.
>
>  Sebastian
>
>
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