Re: How is whois.nse coming along?

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

Hi Jah,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 7:49 PM, jah <jah () zadkiel plus com> wrote:
> During testing using Patrick's branch of svn, I found that threads were
> no longer starting (or rather, resuming) in the target order defined on
> the commandline and so, when scanning a range of targets from a given
> assignment, the whois queries were being made for a target that wasn't
> necessarily the first one in the range.  This made the presentation of
> pointers to the host script result a bit ugly: [...]

I believe the "Universal Awareness" change I've posted here may be
useful for solving this problem:
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q2/0900.html

Could you please comment on this?

> [...] Strangely enough, since the merge of Patrick's branch, threads
> seem to be resuming in order again, so we're now doubly assured of a
> nice ordered result!

I haven't merged any of my nse_main changes with the main branch.
Threads should still have an undefined execution order in my branch,
is that where you are testing. I get the impression that "merge of
Patrick's branch" implies you are testing in /nmap?

Thanks,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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