reponse to Rob

[mike <dmciscobgp () hotmail com>]

> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:40:22 +0000
> From: robert () robnicholls co uk
> To: dmciscobgp () hotmail com
> CC: nmap-dev () insecure org
> Subject: Re: David/stacktrace errors
>
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:19:54 +0000, mike <dmciscobgp () hotmail com> wrote:
> > i was also wanting to know, with reguards to doing an -sV scan. i notice
> > this always launches the default scripts for version testing as well.
>
> It should just launch 3 scripts, those in the "version" category 
> than the "default" scripts:
>
> http://nmap.org/book/nse-usage.html
>
> version 
> The scripts in this special category are an extension to the version
> detection feature and cannot be selected explicitly. They are selected to
> run only if version detection (-sV) was requested. Their output cannot be
> distinguished from version detection output and they do not produce service
> or host script results. Examples are skypev2-version, pptp-version, and
> iax2-version.
>
> If I perform a -sV scan with -d2, for example, I can see Nmap has ony
> loaded those 3 scripts:
>
> NSE: Loaded 3 scripts for scanning.
> NSE: Loaded 'iax2-version.nse'.
> NSE: Loaded 'pptp-version.nse'.
> NSE: Loaded 'skypev2-version.nse'.
>
> But I agree it might be useful to have a way to prevent the scripts from
> executing, so it's limited to the "classic" version detection methods.
>
> Rob

 

 

 

i agree. something else i will ask you now that i looked into it and thought about it. maybe others can weigh in. what 
is the difference in having the debug options on and script-tracing as well? i ran debug level 3 and then i did a 
script-trace and i saw the EXACT SAME OUTPUT. do we really need 2 options that do the same thing? i would just have the 
d(level) option and it could easily do the script-trace at level 3 or higher. again, am i reading into something that 
is not there? i notice level 2 does me perfectly. it shows line by line what actual script commands are being ran and 
doesn't hit me with NSOCK routines that really show me nothing other than "something is happening"

 

m|ke

                                          
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