RE: Invalid character in host specification (NOT).

["Craig Humphrey" <Craig.Humphrey () chapmantripp com>]

Split into files of 4096 hosts and run multiple nmaps?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alen Williams [mailto:alen.williams () address4life com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:52 AM
> To: nmap-dev () insecure org
> Subject: Invalid character in host specification (NOT).
>
> Hey, 
>
> after searching through a text file of IP's, trying to figure out what
> on earth the invalid character could possibly be... I realized it's
> because I specified more than 4098 hosts.
>
> nmap -n -sL -iL master.txt  | wc -l
> Invalid character in  host specification.
> QUITTING!
>    4098
>
> I have files of IP's that I need to scan that have much more than 4098
> hosts, same for --excludefile as well.
>
> Is there some kind of tweak that I could do to up this limit? 
> I need to
> roughly double it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alen.

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