Guide To Port Scan IP Addresses

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As I’m a beginner, I’m seeking to find online tools and instruments which I can use to port scan IP addresses and resolve it to their appropriate hosts?

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Guide To Port Scan IP Addresses

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The Nmap port scanner is the leading port scanner. It is extremely accurate, stable and has a bigger number of alternatives than we will get into here, for more data and establishment directions go to the Nmap page. The benefit of utilizing this server is that it is external facing to your system and will see what some other outside hacker or attacker on the Internet will see. Nmap software can be installed and run on your network, resulting in a different result than that of the external facing scan.


Tcpdump is also a tool which will help you discover the IP addresses which are in associated status in your system. It resolves the host names and additionally captures and saves the packet for later analysis, captures packets matching expression, captures packets for given number.
You can also additionally read the captured packets in ASCII or hex format for analysis.

Example -Ways to scan specific ports:

Sample output:

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Guide To Port Scan IP Addresses

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If you are looking for a port scanner or an application that can scan a remote computer for open ports, try using Famatech Advanced Port Scanner. It supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10. This application is a free network scanner that allows you to look for open ports on network computers and acquire the versions of the program running on the detected ports.

It includes the following features:

  • Offers quick multi-threaded port scanning
  • Capable of acquiring information about network devices
  • Has easy access to the found resources
  • Remote access
  • Supports remote PC shutdown and Wake-On-LAN
  • Execute commands on remote computer

Another one you can try is Nmap. The name stands for “Network Mapper.” It is a free, open-source utility for security auditing and network discovery. It is a security scanner application originally written by Gordon Lyon or known also as “Fyodor Vaskovich,” his pseudonym. It is used to discover hosts and services on a computer network therefore building a map of the network.

For the full documentation on using Nmap, head down to Nmap Reference Guide.

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