23 Jan
2006
23 Jan
'06
5:39 a.m.
On Sunday 22 January 2006 7:09 pm, Puneet Lakhina wrote:
Hi i use internet from behind a proxy server. I want to use nmap to scan some external hosts but iam not able to do that. It resolves the ip address but fails to access them reporting that the host may be down. I tried pinging the hosts but that also doesnt work
A http proxy is an application proxy for redirecting http requests through an external ip. Ususally it will listen on 8080 (squid default 3128). It does not listen on other ports unless asked to and most certainly not for non http traffic. Pls read up http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html http://squid.visolve.com/squid/configuration_manual_30.htm to save yourself unnecessary pain.
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