Help with port scanning

Hi guys. New to the field here so apologies for the newbie questions in advance.

I’ve recently been appointed with doing the port scans at my job for my company. This company is a retail company and owns a few stores across the country.

I’ve been tasked with port scanning multiple IP addresses most of these belonging to the several stores owned across the country. The remaining IP’s I’m not sure what they are for.

My question is as I …

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