Finally! A built-in MP3 player for nmap!

[Doug <dugely () yahoo com>]

Hey all,

Great scanner you guys have here. I've just recently subscribed to
the list, but I've been an avid user of nmap for quite some time.

I was reading slashdot or something and I came across the survey
that was posted to this recently. One of the questions about desired
improvements for nmap was about an internal MP3 player for nmap.
110 people thought this feature would be extraordinarily cool. Well
here you are:

http://hardcoresoftware.cjb.net/downloads/nmap-2.54BETA26-mp3-patch.tgz

A single little patch (with patching instructions) that will play
MP3s for you while you scan!


Now, boring scans like:

nmap -O -sS blackhole

can be brightened up by instead entering:

nmap -O -sS -k "/home/doug/mp3/Clapton/Layla - Unplugged.mp3" blackhole



Why -k? As I say in the README, *k*illing CPU cycles...

Note: You absolutely must have the program mpg123 installed on your box for
this patch to work.


Oh... by the way, this is *only* a joke patch, and I hope Fyodor doesn't
ruin a perfectly good port scanner by adding this patch to the actual
distribution, but it DOES WORK! :)

I've been starting to read the code in nmap. I'm really enjoying it.
Cleanly written with a comfortable style to it. I also really appreciate
the lack of C++.

I'm looking forward to trying out -sI too. Maybe somebody could explain
basic usage and how it actually works? That would be very cool.


A couple of other things too:
-The latest version (2.54BETA26) seems to be stuck in verbose mode.
 I don't personally like seeing the "ADDING OPEN PORT 22" and such...

-I submitted a fingerprint for OpenBSD 2.9 saying it couldn't be recognized.
 Sorry to whoever reads those things. It's now recognized for some reason...

-OpenBSD seems to ellicit an impossible uptime for me:
 Uptime 7253.311 days (since Mon Aug 31 06:58:59 1981)
 I wish!

-There seem to be a couple of features not in the man page:
 --interactive (Interactive mode)
 --spoof (Only in interactive mode (Spoofs your process descriptions))
 --nmap_path (Only in interactive mode (Runs a custom version of nmap))
 -q (Changes to argv[0] to "pine")

-Oh, and spoofing the argv[0] doesn't work at all on my linux machine,
 and only kind of works on my OpenBSD box. Is this a discontinued feature?


Anyways, thanks for listening to me blab,

Doug

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