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Either a bug or just me being retarded...
From: Clinton Moore <clintonmoore () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:28:46 -0500
So, I use nmap a lot but I rarely have a need to output a different format other than just debugging or verbose stuff, but I recently tried the -oG option. However, I didn't specify an actual file name like the man page directed me to. I know, I know...bad Clint. Buuuut...by doing that it saw the next option flag as the actual file name. Which I am not too sure is that big of a deal but I feel like that should be easy to detect and complain about. I mean how many file names start with a dash? Also, and this is the really weird part, the flag after it just so happened to be -e...so my output filename was -e but the specified interface (eth0) was actually used, so it's like -e was also read as an option properly. Unless the default interface is eth0 and I just tricked it into using that interface when it shouldn't have been able to resolve it. My primary interface is eth1 for this experiment. Now when the scan gets to running every time I ran one like this it resolved TWO IPs! The one I asked it to scan and 176.74.176.179. Not too sure if it interpreted my jacked up command into that IP or what, but I was scratching my head till I realized what I had done. BTW, I am using nmap version 6.40 64bit on Kali 1.0.6 and the command I ran was: nmap -p 1-1024 -T2 -sV --version-all -PN -A -vv -oG -e eth0 x.x.x.x I know I ran it wrong, but I feel like it should have told me I was being a goofy human and to go RTFM. Thanks! ______________________________ Clinton Moore, CISSP _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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