Port Authority - LAN Host Discovery

A handy systems and security-focused software, Port Authority is a very fast port scanner. Port Authority also allows you to shortly uncover hosts in your community and can display useful network details about your device and other hosts.

One of the quickest port scanners with host discovery on the market! Host discovery is usually performed in lower than 5 seconds. If the device you're scanning drops packets, it takes about 10 seconds to scan one thousand ports. If the system you're scanning rejects packets, it takes less than 30 seconds to scan all sixty five,535 ports!

Features

* Heavily threaded, no more waiting for outcomes one at a time

* LAN host discovery

* Public IP discovery

* MAC handle vendor detection

* LAN/WAN host TCP port scanning

* Custom port range scans

* Open discovered HTTP(S) companies to browser

* Lightweight service fingerprinting (SSH/HTTP(S) server sort and version)

* DNS report lookups supporting almost each record type

* Wake-on-LAN for LAN hosts

How are scans so fast?

This application makes heavy use of threading. Because a lot of the operations performed are I/O bound a lot more threads can be used than the number of cores on a device. In fact, one of the most intensive parts of the applying is updating the UI throughout scans. This has gone through many optimizations but nonetheless remains a bit of a hotspot.

I have a decrease finish and/or older gadget, will this work?

Absolutely! Just decrease the variety of threads that are used for port scans in the settings. I'm always working on improving the efficiency and memory footprint of the appliance, and issues have been significantly improved because the original version!

I keep getting crashes when scanning a extensive variety of ports

The crash is most probably an out of memory exception that is occurring as a outcome of utilizing too many threads. Lower your port scan thread count within the settings. The right worth will be highly dependent on the device and its hardware.

I'm getting a warning that claims this application is attempting to send email

A few customers have reported that a warning pops up on their device, warning them that this application is attempting to ship mail. This is attributable to varied security software so that you may be assured (or just have a look at the code yourself) that I'm not sending mail.

Some safety software appears at the place traffic is coming and going from the device and takes certain actions for certain cases. If you're operating any kind of port scan that features port 25 (SMTP) this will most probably be flagged. Even although no information is being sent to that port the safety software program will see an outbound connection to an SMTP service and throw up a warning. Obviously it is a very dangerous examine however some safety tools are better than others and may actually look for data flowing out to port 25 to see if there's actually something occurring.

I'm not finding some of the hosts/devices on my LAN

If you're discovering that some gadgets aren't responding in time you should enhance the host scan timeout setting, simply be aware that it will cause host scans to take longer. In some circumstances it could be price buying and selling time for accuracy.

I'm not finding open ports that I know are actually open

You can now modify the timeout for connections made to ports when performing either LAN or WAN scans. If you are scanning something over WAN (mobile network should you're utilizing a cell phone) please be aware that scanning is greatest effort. Mobile carriers may detect that a real port scan is happening and apply visitors shaping dynamically, or they may simply begin terminating the connections completely. Additionally, when you occur to have poor sign or to not have 4G the quality of the community connection could additionally be so poor that you will must have a fairly excessive timeout in order to tolerate latency spikes.

Do you like the application? Consider buying the donate model https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aaronjwood.portauthority.donate

This software program is 100% free and open source https://github.com/aaronjwood/PortAuthority