Re: Possible Bug with HOSTS Column

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:07:11PM +0000, Naami, Tim wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
> I am running Zenmap 5.51 on Windows XP SP3.
>
> I don't know if this is a bug, user error, or a user error that causes
> a crash (that is still a bug).  I routinely need to generate a list of
> IP addresses for host names and vice versa.  For instance I might have
> a list of hosts with names like:
>
>       HOST01
>       HOST02
>       ...
>       HOST99
>
> and need to get the IP addresses.  If I use the built-in Ping Scan,
> paste my host list in the Target dialog box, the results show up in
> Nmap Output but with extra data I don't need.  What I need is shown in
> the HOST column.  In other words I want the final listing to be
> something like:
>
>       HOST01 (10.100.1.23)
>       HOST02 (10.125.11.38)
>       ...
>       HOST99 (10.250.98.102)

If you just want to do reverse name resolution, you should run a list
scan (-sL) instead of a ping scan. That will avoid sending any probes to
the target hosts and ensures that none of them will be missing from the
list.

> This is EXACTLY what is displayed in the HOST column on the left side
> of the program.  If I try to highlight and copy that column it won't
> let me select it.  If I highlight one entry and then hold CTRL (or
> SHIFT) and click a second entry I get the following error:
>
> Most likely the crash is caused by my attempt to select multiple
> entries on the HOSTS list and this is not allowed.  Still this should
> not crash the program as it does.  Possibly there should be a warning
> message stating selection of multiple items is not allowed instead of
> the crash.  Still another issue could be that I have something else
> going wrong that causes this issue.

This was a bug that was fixed by Colin Rice in r23771.

David Fifield
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