SEE THE MAN PAGE () FOR MORE OPTIONS AND EXAMPLES dns-servers : Specify custom DNS servers n/-R: Never do DNS resolution/Always resolve PE/PP/PM: ICMP echo, timestamp, and netmask request discovery probes PS/PA/PU/PY: TCP SYN/ACK, UDP or SCTP discovery to given ports Pn: Treat all hosts as online - skip host discovery sL: List Scan - simply list targets to scan In any case, we are prompted with tool version and usage nmap Same thing can be done by clicking on the “Show application” menu:Īnother possibility is launching it by simply opening the Terminal and typing nmap. In Kali Linux, Nmap can be started by navigating in the applications menu by clicking on Applications > Information Gathering > nmap like shown in the following image: You can even download the latest release from. Otherwise you can install it from package repositories by using apt-get install nmap or yum install nmap or similar commands depending on your Linux distro. If you are using Kali Linux, Nmap is already part of your arsenal. Nmap is the most famous and complete tool for network discovery and scanning: it is considered the “Swiss army knife” of network Security tools and it can be used to perform a large variety of tasks.

Mapping targets is useful to model network infrastructure. This means that its purpose is not to find all possible informations about the targets (like open ports or vulnerabilities), but just to understand their logical location inside the network. Network discovery represents an important phase in the Information Gathering activity: it is the process of identifying live hosts on the network.

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