I want to remotely examine if some servers are up.
I don't use the ping command because it gives a lot of wrong results like "destination host unreachable" and "request Timed out" due to bad networking infrastructure.
I try to use nmap command to examine servers by open ports. Nmap gives me the real opened ports, but when I turn off the server and the access point, nmap still reports it running.
I connects to the internet through a usb modem, and the destination host that I examine is connected to the internet through a TP-Link Access point with usb modem and a static IP.
When I turn off the remote access point completely and I run this command on my local machine :
nmap -p 80 -vv 105.198.224.47
Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-01-31 11:54 EET
Initiating Ping Scan at 11:54
Scanning 105.198.224.47 [2 ports]
Completed Ping Scan at 11:54, 0.61s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 11:54
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 11:54, 0.01s elapsed
Initiating Connect Scan at 11:54
Scanning 105.198.224.47 [1 port]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 105.198.224.47
Completed Connect Scan at 11:54, 0.09s elapsed (1 total ports)
Nmap scan report for 105.198.224.47
Host is up, received syn-ack (0.55s latency).
Scanned at 2017-01-31 11:54:17 EET for 0s
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
80/tcp open http syn-ack
Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.78 seconds
And when put the ip in a browser it gives:
"This site can’t be reached"
"The connection was reset."
This happens in both situations when it is turned on and turned off, However i don't setup any http server on the host.
traceroute when the access point is turned on gives:
traceroute to 105.198.224.47 (105.198.224.47), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.9.1 (192.168.9.1) 1.667 ms 1.768 ms 2.508 ms
2 * * *
3 10.255.224.106 (10.255.224.106) 759.425 ms 769.911 ms 770.401 ms
4 10.255.224.114 (10.255.224.114) 770.142 ms 770.508 ms 770.871 ms
5 10.255.224.124 (10.255.224.124) 771.866 ms 771.859 ms 779.227 ms
6 105.199.1.3 (105.199.1.3) 780.458 ms 792.637 ms 792.453 ms
7 163.121.143.88 (163.121.143.88) 803.571 ms 51.573 ms 41.250 ms
8 163.121.143.75 (163.121.143.75) 49.261 ms 49.264 ms 49.384 ms
9 * * *
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
19 * * *
20 * * *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * * *
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *
28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *
running traceroute when the access point turned off gives the same result but the changes only in values of milli seconds ms.
So, what the explanation of this behaviour?
