Re: [NSE] hostmap-ip2hosts not working (ip2hosts.com gone)

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 04/17/2014 09:22 AM, Daniel Miller wrote:
> Just got this bug report via Twitter: 
> https://twitter.com/ripmeout/status/456352270850863105
>
> "@*nmap* <https://twitter.com/nmap> Hi! I was trying to run 
> "hostmap-ip2hosts.nse" script but the 
> http://www.ip2hosts.com<http://t.co/DQG3V2PasD> is no longer alive. :("
>
> Does anyone have information on this service and whether this outage 
> is permanent?
>
> We should probably have a way to check the status of these external 
> services and update our scripts accordingly.
>
> Dan
The site is back up for now, but the question of how to detect and deal 
with external dependencies and API changes still stands.

Dan
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