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Re: Updating old Scan-Results using new DBs of new nmap-Versions?
From: rembrandt () jpberlin de
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:51:49 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:51:25AM +0200, rembrandt () jpberlin de wrote:Would it be possible to update old Scanresults (for example Scans made with 3.95) if you updated (f.w. to the latest Version). If you use -oA you get all output formats and also the Strings wich where reported by the Service is included. So would it be (theoretical, such a nmap-function would be realy sweet...) possible to update these Results and maybe remove the "unknown" (+the STring) from the File and replace it with (just as exmaple) "ISS 6.1 .NET 2.0".Good idea. At some point I would like to add that functionality to the submission CGI. So if you try to submit an undetected OS/service result, it would tell you that it already matches in the current DB (and give the match details). We already have tools for this sort of matching, as we use them to integrate submissions. Maybe we'll package them with Nmap at some point. Cheers, -F
Well that would be good but wont help Admisn f.e. in Networks with no Internetconnection after they updated nmap. It was realy more focused to the Services except of OS-Detection (wich would be possible too this way but wich wasn`t in my mind). :) I realy just ment: You scanned a class-B network (f.e. over a VPN) and you got a neat output-file (mynet.gnmap or somethign else). So maybe some day later you release a new nmap-Version wich has much more Services in its DB... For now a normal Admin would have to mayb rescan the whole network (wich would.. "suck".. ;) ). So updating old (existing) output files would be a logical way to prevent this (in my oppinion. an Online-Update function for just refetching new DBs would be neat too). Kind regards, Rembrandt _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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- Updating old Scan-Results using new DBs of new nmap-Versions? rembrandt (Jun 20)
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- Re: Updating old Scan-Results using new DBs of new nmap-Versions? rembrandt (Jun 23)