Re: nmap --tr ping times seem to show only integer values, mantissa is "00"

Fyodor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:45 AM, Keith Christian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Using Nmap 7.60.
>
> I seem to recall that in the previous version that I used, Nmap 7.12,
> traceroute would usually return a non-zero mantissa.
>
> Has the ping time for traceroutes been forced to an integer with a 00
> mantissa displayed for formatting purposes?
>

Nmap should be giving results down to the hundredths of a millisecond, but
it is possible that your system is only giving Nmap millisecond-precision
results when Nmap asks for times using gettimeofday() and similar.  I don't
know what platform you're on, but I just tried "nmap --traceroute -v
scanme.nmap.org" on Linux and it gave sub-millisecond results.  It ended
with:

9   31.12 ms sjo-b21-link.telia.net (62.115.118.169)
10  31.54 ms linode-ic-320384-sjo-b21.c.telia.net (62.115.12.1)
11  28.49 ms 173.230.159.15
12  28.76 ms scanme.nmap.org (45.33.32.156)

Cheers,
Fyodor

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