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Re: [Patch] Output partial results after host timeout
From: Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:54:39 -0500
Chris, Thanks for these patches! This particular feature is one I've thought would be useful for a long time. However, I think we need a way to make it clear in the output that the results are incomplete. This would involve (at minimum) altering the Nmap XML DTD. We also need to consider how it would affect the other output formats (Normal and Grepable). Finally, it needs testing to determine how our output routines can handle the possibly-incomplete data structures representing each stage of the scan where a timeout could occur: for instance, what happens when the timeout happens in the middle of OS guessing? Halfway through a traceroute? I don't expect you to have answers for all of these questions, since some of them will need to involve community discussions, but if you have ideas on how to handle them, we would love to hear it. Dan On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Chris Woodbury <woodbusy () gmail com> wrote:
I'm sending in a few small extensions to Nmap I've developed with my colleagues at Trustwave. If other people think they're useful, we would be glad to see them get merged in. The first is an argument that causes Nmap to output data for hosts that have hit the host timeout limit. Currently, if a host is 95% done with a port scan when it times out, Nmap will show no results for the host. This will cause it to output the results of the 95% of the ports that were scanned. -chris _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- [Patch] Output partial results after host timeout Chris Woodbury (Mar 21)
- Re: [Patch] Output partial results after host timeout Daniel Miller (Mar 23)
- Re: [Patch] Output partial results after host timeout Chris Woodbury (Mar 24)
- Re: [Patch] Output partial results after host timeout Daniel Miller (Mar 23)