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Re: distributed nmap?
From: "Aaron D. Turner" <aturner () pobox com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:54:52 -0800 (PST)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- More specific? Well have a deamon which starts out of inetd (almost too easy to do) and takes a string from the socket and then executes nmap and passes the string as an argument to nmap. It then reads from STDOUT/STDERR and sends the output of nmap back to the user. This keeps all the intelligence centralized on the client interface which makes it easier to manage. I'd recommend that you have some kind of authentication in the daemon for the client to prevent people from taking over your agents and using them against you/others. Bonus points for encrypting the communication between the the client/server. Isn't all that difficult, and I'd be surprised if someone with less than perfect intentions hasn't done it already. - -- Aaron Turner | Either which way, one half dozen or another. aturner () pobox com | http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/ "There is no worse tyranny than to make a man pay for something he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - -Benjamin Franklin All emails from this account are PGP signed. Lack of a signature is "bad". PGP Key fingerprint = FB E1 CE ED 57 E4 AB 80 59 6E 60 BF 45 1B 20 E8 On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Arturo Busleiman wrote:
Personally, I would prefer a simple client/daemon wrapper for nmap. That would provide an easy to maintain layer of abstraction between nmap and the means of communication. One could write such an animal in a few hours with Perl which would be almost as portable as a C app.sounds interesting! could you please be more specific on your idea? *> Panic? My kernel doesn't panic! We are doomed! DustDustDust!!!! *> Get PGP KEY: use pgpk -a hkp://horowitz.surfnet.nl/buanzox () usa net *> System Fork BBS, en Argentina! (5411) 4799-2510 Dedaparamaxxaginos rules!
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Current thread:
- distributed nmap? Lorell Hathcock (Mar 18)
- Re: distributed nmap? Thomas Reinke (Mar 18)
- Re: distributed nmap? Arturo Busleiman (Mar 18)
- Re: distributed nmap? Lance Spitzner (Mar 19)
- Re: distributed nmap? Frasnelli, Dan (Mar 19)
- Re: distributed nmap? Aaron D. Turner (Mar 19)
- Re: distributed nmap? D . R . Tzeck (Mar 21)
- Re: distributed nmap? Arturo Busleiman (Mar 18)
- Re: distributed nmap? Thomas Reinke (Mar 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: distributed nmap? Aaron D. Turner (Mar 19)
- Re: distributed nmap? Simple Nomad (Mar 24)