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    Finding open VNC hosts with nmap

    Say you have a machine using DHCP that you only boot up once in a while. It's headless, so you need to remote into it. How can you find out what IP it has? Here is quick command to scan for open VNC ports on the 172.27.1.* sub-net.

    nmap -p 5900 172.27.1.0/24 --open |grep Interesting
    

    GitHub: _posts/2009-12-29-finding-open-vnc-hosts-with-nmap.html

    Updated: December 29, 2009

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