Re: Who is testing the new Nmap IPv6 support

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 07:55:48PM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:46:14 -0700
> David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
>
> > Can you tell if Nmap is using the correct source address and
> > interface? Does it work if you force it with -S and -e?
>
> I ran into a bug with the interface determination code in
> route_dst_netlink() somehow leaking file handles and running the box out.
>
> In short:
>
> $ sudo ./nmap --datadir . 128.54.0.0/20 
> Starting Nmap 5.52.IPv6.Beta2 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-06-13 19:49 UTC
> route_dst_netlink: cannot create AF_NETLINK socket: Too many open files
>
>
> But using a /24 works just fine.  To get around this I have to specify
> the interface with -e.

I found a socket leak in another place that was causing this. It's fixed
in r24012.

David Fifield
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