Re: Feature request: Accept decimal notation for target host

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Even though I don't personally believe this is a good idea (very limited
use, confusion, etc.), it would solve the oft-repeated question of how to
scan sequential blocks of addresses that don't line up on round byte
boundaries. For example,

nmap 192.168.10.100-255 192.168.11.0-99

could be written as

nmap 3232238180-3232238435

although I can't believe anyone would care enough to do it this way.

Dan

P.S. This was likely brought up in response to a tweet by @mikkohypponen
about 5 hours ago:
https://twitter.com/mikkohypponen/status/72663582327832578

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Paul Eubanks <pauleubanks () gmail com>wrote:

> Nmap accepts 4-tuple and Hex notation for targets, why not decimal?
>
> e.g.
>
> $ ping 127.0.0.1
> $ ping 0x7f000001
> $ ping 2130706433
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