Hello,
I was trying to do some of the active machines. I started with the “Headless” machine and tried doing my usual scan nmap -sC -sV <machine ip> but got “all 1000 scanned ports are in ignored states”. Ok, I thought maybe there’s an IDS or something or maybe the ports aren’t in the standard range. So I tried several different variations of scans. -sS, -sT, -sU, -sF, -sA, -sX, -Pn all with the same results. Fragmented my packets. Changed the timing. I tried changing the source port to 53 and specifying my tun0 interface with the -e flag and still, I get the same results. Then I used masscan to scan all 65335 ports and still nothing, no ports open.
So I thought, ok maybe the box or my pwnbox is bugged. I reset both, switched VPN servers from US-EAST to US-WEST and I’m still not getting any results. I’ve tried scanning different machines, both active and retired and I can’t scan any of them. I always get this message:
Even scanning nmap.scanme.org from the pwnbox yields the same results…
If I try and traceroute from my pwnbox to the boxes I can’t reach them. I thought a big advantage of using the pwnbox was avoiding these kinds of connection issues.
I do have internet connectivity from the Pwnbox supposedly.
Any ideas? Am I missing something really basic? I only get 24 hours of Pwnbox per month and I already wasted almost 3 hours trying to fix this problem which is a little frustrating.
