Re: Paris Traceroute?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:23:26PM +0000, Darren Martyn wrote:
> A friend sent me this the other day, might be useful to implement into
> nmap. Seems to provide a more accurate traceroute. Please note, the
> proof of concept tool they provide needs to be ran as a privileged user.
>
> http://www.paris-traceroute.net/
>
> Might be interesting to someone, an implementation of this in nmap
> would make for some interesting "extra accuracy" in traceroute-of-scan :)
>
> Unsure if it would be a core or a NSE thing, still getting to grips
> with the nmap codebase myself in the hope of submitting
> patches/features in the future.

It looks like a good idea for an NSE script. The idea was mentioned
once before, http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q2/197.

Nmap's traceroute is built on quite different principles. It explicitly
is designed to find only one of the paths to each target, and uses
aggressive caching and parallelism.

David Fifield
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