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Re: script for virtual host discovery
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:54:45 -0700
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:46:44AM -0700, Carlos Pantelides wrote:
David:Your script works by trying a HEAD request for / using each of the candidate hostnames. But there's no reason this technique should be limited to hosts running HTTP. What do you think about doing a simple DNS query for each candidate hostname instead?Well, this script is looking for unregistered, local names associated with virtual http hosts, it is "darknet" exploring. You can even run it in a host without connectivity.
I don't understand. The names have to be in DNS, or else http.head won't work. So they are "registered" in a sense. I also don't know what you mean about using it in a host without connectivity. If you can't connect to it, how will http.head work? Maybe I'm confused about what this script does? David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Oct 28)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery David Fifield (Oct 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Oct 29)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Oct 30)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Oct 31)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery David Fifield (Nov 01)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Nov 02)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery David Fifield (Nov 02)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Nov 02)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery David Fifield (Nov 03)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Nov 04)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Ron (Nov 04)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Martin Holst Swende (Nov 04)
- Re: script for virtual host discovery Carlos Pantelides (Nov 07)