What would be the response of all open ports?

While doing a technical assessment to determine network vulnerabilities, you used the TCP XMAS scan. What would be the response of all open ports?
A. The port will send an ACK
B. The port will send a SYN
C. The port will ignore the packets
D. The port will send an RST

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13 thoughts on “What would be the response of all open ports?

  1. answer is C
    If a port is closed, the target system will respond with a RST packet, indicating that the connection attempt was rejected. However, if a port is open, the target system may not send any response at all, or it may respond with a packet with various combinations of flags set or unset.

  2. “The RFC 793 expected behavior is that any TCP segment with an out-of-state Flag sent to an open port is discarded, whereas segments with out-of-state flags sent to closed ports should be handled with a RST in response. This behavior should allow an attacker to scan for closed ports by sending certain types of rule-breaking packets (out of sync or disallowed by the TCB) and detect closed ports via RST packets”

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