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Address mask ICMP messages are from RFC 950, not RFC 792.

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david
2009-05-27 21:52:47 +00:00
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@@ -673,9 +673,11 @@ you would expect.</para>
request behavior.</para>
<para>While echo request is the standard ICMP ping query,
Nmap does not stop there. The ICMP standard (<ulink
role="hidepdf" url="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc792.txt">RFC
792</ulink>) also specifies timestamp request, information
Nmap does not stop there. The ICMP standard
<ulink role="hidepdf" url="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc792.txt">RFC 792</ulink><indexterm><primary>RFC 792</primary></indexterm>
and
<ulink role="hidepdf" url="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc950.txt">RFC 950</ulink><indexterm><primary>RFC 950</primary></indexterm>
also specify timestamp request, information
request, and address mask request packets as codes 13, 15,
and 17, respectively. While the ostensible purpose for
these queries is to learn information such as address masks