Re: ARP scan (?) bug in Nmap 5.59BETA1

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:43:20AM -0700, Ukjente wrote:
> This is a bug in Nmap 5.59BETA1, svn revision 25719 (updated and
> recompiled before posting)
>
> When ping scanning a local network subnet or host (i.e. nmap -sn -sP
> 192.168.1.0/24) the scan fails with the error:
>
> route_dst_netlink: can't find interface "<interface name>"
>
> Likely an error in the ARP scan, as it only occurs when calling nmap as
> root.
>
> The error is confirmed not to exist in 5.21,
>
> This was also posted in the Backtrack bugtracker a few days ago
> (http://redmine.backtrack-linux.org:8080/issues/166), but I searched
> nmap-dev archives and didn't see any mention of this error.

Thanks for the report. What is the output of these commands:

nmap --iflist
/sbin/route -n

David Fifield
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