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Nmap 2.30BETA17 is now available
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:35:30 -0800 (PST)
Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that Nmap 2.30BETA17 has been released. This version offers a number of cool new features and changes from Beta14. Here is the list (download URLs are below it): -- Added ACK scanning. This scan technique (which van Houser and others have been bugging me to add for years :), is great for testing firewall rulesets. It can NOT find open ports, but it can distinguish between filtered/unfilterd by sending an ACK packet to each port and waiting for a RST to come back. Filtered ports will not send back a RST (or will send ICMP unreachables). This scan type is activated with -sA . -- Documented the Window scan (-sW) which Lamont Granquist added in September 99. -- Added a whole bunch of OS fingerprints that people have submitted. -- "Protocol" field in output eliminated. It is now printed right next to the number (/etc/services style). Like "22/tcp". I wonder what I should put in the extra white space this leaves on the report :). -- Added --resume option to continue a large network scan where you left off. This is useful for recovering from errors (modem drops carrier, network outage, etc). It also allows you to start and stop for policy reasons (like if a client only wants you to scan on weekends or at night) or if you want to run the scan on a different host. Usage is 'nmap --resume logfile' where logfile can be either normal (-oN) or machine parseable (-oM) logfile from the scan that was aborted. No other options can be given (the options in the logfile from the original scan will be used). Nmap will start off with the host after the last one successfully scanned in the log file. -- Added --append_output option which causes -oN/-oM/-oS to APPEND to the output file you specify rather than overwriting it. -- Various internal code cleanup, makefile fixes, etc. -- Changed version number from 2.3BETA* to 2.30BETA* to appease various packaging systems that thought 2.3BETA was < 2.12 . -- Nmap output to files now correctly flushes output after scanning for each host is finished. -- Fixed compiler -L flags error found by Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt () tu-bs de> -- Fixed configure scripts so that options you give to the Nmap configure (like --prefix ) are also passed to the nmapfe configure script. This problem was noted by Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt () tu-bs de>. While I was at it, I added some other cleanups to the system. -- Added --noninteractive option for when nmap is called from scripts (where stuff like prompting users for info is unacceptable). It does not currently do anything (Nmap never prompts) and script writers should probably wait until at least May '2000 so their scripts still work with earlier versions of Nmap. -- Updated to the latest config.guess and config.sub from Autoconf 2.13 -- Applied patch by Sven <s.carstens () gmx de> which fixes a segmentation fault problem in Nmapfe colored mode as well as some output niceties. -- Changed some C++ comments to C-style for portability (noticed by "Sergei V. Rousakov" <sergei () cas Vanderbilt Edu> ) For those of you running Linux/x86 w/rpm (www.rpm.org), you can install/upgrade to the newest version of nmap/nmapfe with these commands: rpm -vhU ftp://ftp.server51.freshmeat.net/pub/nmap/nmap-2.30BETA17-1.i386.rpm rpm -vhU ftp://ftp.server51.freshmeat.net/pub/nmap/nmap-frontend-2.30BETA17-1.i386.rpm source tarballs and source RPMs are available at: http://www.insecure.org/nmap or ftp://ftp.server51.freshmeat.net/pub/nmap Please try these out and let me know if you have any problems. A NON-BETA release is coming very soon, so now is the time to mention any problems which you do not want to be in the stable release. Cheers, Fyodor
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