Re: RFC: Should Nmap resolve and scan all addresses by default?
Ionel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel |
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Stop sending mails to me Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Aug 2017, at 02:32, nnposter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8/8/17 3:54 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: >> A: Scan all resolved addresses by default. >> Example: nmap example.com <http://example.com> >> Result: scans 5 IP addresses for example.com <http://example.com> >> To preserve current behavior: nmap --resolveone example.com >> <http://example.com> >> >> B: Scan only the first resolved address by default (current behavior) >> Example: nmap --resolveall example.com <http://example.com> >> Result: scans 5 IP addresses for example.com <http://example.com> >> Otherwise no change to current behavior. > > The ability to go after all associated IP addresses in a simple fashion > is highly useful. That said, this expansion should be IMHO requested > explicitly. Option B would be my strong preference. > > Cheers, > nnposter > _______________________________________________ > Sent through the dev mailing list > https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/