spoofers and sniffers

Wed Dec 15 10:32:42 PST 2004

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:12:44AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> none of the sniffer detector apps was able to find those "sniffers"
> 
> -- so how does one know that there is a sniffer in your subnet
>    or upstream at the isp, colo, wireless connectivity
> 

A trivial trick is to inject a packet that the sniffer will see that has
a "flag" source or destination IP.  Many, many people don't bother to
disable name resolution when sniffing.  You watch for the ARP (or, in
the case of remote sniffers, the query to a nameserver you control).  If
you inject something that has no other business being on the network,
when you see the response packet (ARP or query), you know they're
sniffing.

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