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Check all of the following that could be a likely cause of the lack of response?

Jack is conducting a port scan of a target network. He knows that his target network has a web server and that a mail server is up and running. Jack has been sweeping the network but has not been able to get any responses from the remote target. Check all of the following that could be a likely cause of the lack of response?

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A.
The destination network might be down

B.
The packet TTL value is too low and cannot reach the target

C.
The host might be down

D.
UDP is filtered by a gateway

E.
The TCP window size does not match

F.
ICMP is filtered by a gateway

Explanation:
If the destination host or the destination network is down there is no way to get an answer and if TTL (Time To Live) is set too low the UDP packets will “die” before reaching the host because of too many hops between the scanning computer and the target. The TCP receive window size is the amount of received data (in bytes) that can be buffered during a connection. The sending host can send only that amount of data before it must wait for an acknowledgment and window update from the receiving host and ICMP is mainly used for echo requests and not in port scans.

3 Comments on “Check all of the following that could be a likely cause of the lack of response?

  1. Cosmo says:

    Please read the text carefully:

    “He knows that his target network has a web server and that a mail server is up and running.”

    So, net is not down and host is not down!
    Only B) and F) could be the answers.


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