NMAP discovery scan reporting host offline, pinging the same host gets ICMP responses

I ran an nmap -sn scan on a host, and nmap reported the host as down. I then pinged the same host with ping and got ICMP responses. I’m confused, because I was sure that -sn among other things, did an ICMP echo request.

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With a very large number of GUIDs, can one predict the previous and subsequent GUIDs that will be generated?

I’ve been reading up on GUIDs. According to the Wiki:

Cryptanalysis of the WinAPI GUID generator shows that, since the sequence of V4 GUIDs is pseudo-random, given full knowledge of the internal state, it is possible to p… Continue reading With a very large number of GUIDs, can one predict the previous and subsequent GUIDs that will be generated?