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nmap UDP Port Scan Example

By default nmap performs a TCP scan only. I’ll show you how to scan for UDP ports with nmap!
The syntax is 
$ sudo nmap -sU -p port target

Example:

$ sudo nmap -sU -p 3478 192.168.1.25

Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-06-13 20:43 EDT
Nmap scan report for example.com (192.168.1.25)
Host is up (0.096s latency).
PORT     STATE         SERVICE
3478/udp open|filtered unknown

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.17 seconds




Note that UDP scanning is problematic because of the lack of a confirming SYN-ACK or other packet as with TCP. As such, many false positives can occur from UDP port scan
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