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# masscan

**#Single port scan**

`masscan 10.11.0.0 -p443`

**#Multi-port Scans**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 -p80,443`

**#Scan a Range of Ports**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 -p22-25`

**#Scan n Number of nmap‘s Top Ports**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 ‐‐top-ports 100`

**#Scanning Fast**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 ‐‐top-ports 100 ––rate 100000`

In order to scan very large networks at high speeds you’ll need to use rates of a million or more (––rate 1000000).

**#Excluding Targets**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 ‐‐top-ports 100 ‐‐excludefile exclude.txt`

**#Saving Your Configuration**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 ‐‐top-ports 100 ‐‐echo > scan.txt`

**#Scan a Network for Web Ports**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 -p80,443,8080 ––rate 1000000`

**#Scan a Network for the Top 10 Ports**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 ‐‐top-ten ––rate 1000000`

**#Scan a Network for All Ports**

`masscan 10.11.0.0/16 -p0-65535 ––rate 1000000`

**#Scan The Internet for A Port**

`masscan 0.0.0.0/0 -p443 ––rate 10000000`

**#Scan The Internet for All Port**

`masscan 0.0.0.0/0 -p0-65535 ––rate 1000000`

**#Crawler**

```
Crawl for a specific port
Max rate for extra torque,exclude one IP  

masscan  1.0.0.0/0 --max-rate 1000000 -p 6379 --open-only --exclude 255.255.255.255 > redis.txt
```


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