Re: New nmap patch: --ignore option

["Joy Rider" <listbox () pole-position org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "William McVey" <wam () cisco com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: New nmap patch: --ignore option


> I've released a new patch for nmap that adds the --ignore option,
which
> allows you to specify a file containing a list of targets
> to skip.  This is particularly useful in the following situations:
[...]


Personally I like this much better than the hardcoded list, especially
since some of the IANA-RESERVED has been released to normal blocks in
the past. IMHO most of the hardcoded blocks (that aren't plain invalid
but just reserved - or hostile targets ;-) should be moved out from the
code and put into a file like this. I haven't tried the patch though.
Any penalty on resources, performance etc?



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