Port Scanning
The purpose of port scanning is finding the open ports on the computers that were found with a host scan. When a port scan is started on a network without making use of the results of a host scan, much time is wasted when many IP addresses in the address range are vacant.
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Famous quotes containing the word port:
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)