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portscan

verb

Etymology

From port + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. compounded as portscan — “port + scan”

Definitions

  1. To scan (a network host) in order to detect open ports.

  2. The scanning of a network host in order to detect open ports.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for portscan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA