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RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request
From: Aaron Leininger <rilian4 () hotmail com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:02:01 -0700
So, while keeping in mind wanting to have an easy-to-maintain and non-bloated Ncat, what other features would you like to see? Do you see any improvements that could/should be made on existing features?
Here's my initial feedback and reactions.. First off: I'm running on Debian 4.0 on i686 architecture... ./configure gave a warning about not finding ssl.h. I ran make and it compiled fine w/o ssl support. * I had to manually copy the file to /usr/bin. * running ncat w/o any arguments reports that I need a host to connect to and it quits. I'd recommend adding something like: run: ncat -h for usage *I wanted to try out the http proxy stuff but when I typed: man ncat, I got: No manual entry for ncat Yet ncat -h says to see the man page for more details. How do I access it? I checked google(search terms: ncat manpage) and didn't see anything that looked like it. *I looked at the -h output and tried to guess the correct syntax for the http-proxy stuff. (name of proxy changed to protect the innocent ;-p) I ran: ncat -v --proxy myproxy:8080 www.google.com 80 I figured that would attempt a connection to www.google.com on port 80 and let me pull down a get request using myproxy port 8080 but I got: Ncat: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused. That is the same output I get if I do not specify a proxy. I sit behind one where I am testing so I can't get to external websites w/o it. Next I ran the same commands on an internal web-server. Below are the results: ncat myserver 80 GET / HTTP/1.0 <returned correct html content> ncat --http-proxy myproxy:8080 myserver 80 I got the same output as w/o the proxy but I did not have to issue the GET command myself. It seemed to issue it automatically and returned me the output as if I had issued the GET command from above. I'm not sure why it didn't work when I tried it on an external site such as google. I hope some of this is useful to you. * Next, I went and found that nmap 4.68 ships w/ ssl.h so I told the ./configure to use nmap's include folder for that file. ncat configured successfully but then would not make. Below is the end of the make output: ... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lssl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [ncat] Error 1 Am I missing a package? Can you see anything else I can correct to get ssl support working? Let me know if you need the configure or make output in full, I can attach them. Anyway, I hope some of this proves useful. Thanks for all your work! Aaron _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch when you're away with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_messenger2_072008 _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Ncat: Update and Feature Request Kris Katterjohn (Jul 21)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 21)
- Re: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Kris Katterjohn (Jul 21)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 22)
- Re: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Kris Katterjohn (Jul 23)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 24)
- Re: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Kris Katterjohn (Jul 24)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 25)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 29)
- Re: Ncat: Update and Feature Request eldraco (Jul 29)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 29)
- Re: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Dirk Loss (Jul 29)
- Re: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Kris Katterjohn (Jul 21)
- RE: Ncat: Update and Feature Request Aaron Leininger (Jul 21)