[NTLUG:Discuss] Service snooping

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Fri Jan 18 20:39:08 CST 2002


Courtney Grimland wrote:
> 
> I've been having problems on my network with dhcp
> clients (not) getting an address assigned to them, and
> I think I might have pinpointed the cause (or maybe
> I'm way off, I don't know).
> 
> An nmap scan on 172.16.0.150 (I have a 172.16.0.0/16
> network that I'm working with here) shows that there
> is a service running on udp port 67 (the dhcp server
> port), and that it appears to be a Win2k OS.  If this
> is in fact a rogue dhcp server running on my network,
> that very well could explain the problems I've been
> having.  I'd like to be sure that this is a dhcp
> server running before I confront the potential
> offender.
> 
> Is there a Linux tool that someone can recommend that
> can probe this port or otherwise determine what exact
> service I see running?

Here are some you can build:
http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.php

I used dhcpdump in my presentation on dhcp-ddns.

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