Informal Nmap 3.96BETA1 release

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

Hi developers.  I am pleased to announce the informal Nmap 3.96BETA1
release.  It includes some good new stuff, including --max_retries,
the ability to specify timing options in seconds, minutes, or hours
(e.g. --host_timeout 20m), Priit's NmapFE improvements, a fix (I hope)
for the "Failed to determine dst MAC address" error, GNU/kFreeBSD
support, and more.  Windows binaries are included.  You can find the
goods at the expected locations:

http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.96BETA1.tar.bz2
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.96BETA1.tgz
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.96BETA1-win32.zip
http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-3.96BETA1-1.src.rpm

Crypto sigs are in the usual place:
  http://www.insecure.org/nmap/dist/sigs/?C=M&O=D

Please let me (or better yet: mail to nmap-dev) if you encounter any
problems.  Here is the full list of changes since 3.95:

o Added --max_retries option for capping the maximum number of
  retransmissions the port scan engine will do. The value may be as low
  as 0 (no retransmits).  A low value can increase spead, though at the
  risk of losing accuracy.  The -T4 option now allows up to 6 retries,
  and -T5 allows 2.  Thanks to Martin Macok
  (martin.macok(a)underground.cz) for writing the initial patch, which I
  changed quite a bit.  I also updated the docs to reflect this neat
  new option.

o Many of the Nmap low-level timing options take a value in
  milliseconds.  You can now append an 's', 'm', or 'h' to the value
  to give it in seconds, minutes, or hours instead.  So you can specify a
  45 minute host timeout with --host_timeout 45m rather than specifying
  --host_timeout 2700000 and hoping you did the math right and have the 
  correct number of zeros.  This also now works for the
  --min_rtt_timeout, --max_rtt_timeout, --initial_rtt_timeout,
  --scan_delay, and --max_scan_delay options.

o Improved the NmapFE port to GTK2 so it better-conforms to the new
  API and you don't get as many annoying messages in your terminal
  window.  GTK2 is prettier and more functional too.  Thanks to Priit
  Laes (amd(a)store20.com) for writing these
  excellent patches.

o Fixed a problem which led to the error message "Failed to determine
  dst MAC address for target" when you try to run Nmap using a
  dialup/PPP adapter on Windows rather than a real ethernet card.  Due
  to Microsoft breaking raw sockets, No longer supports dialup adapters, but
  it should now give you a clearer error message than the "dst MAC
  address" nonsense.

o Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is now supported thanks to a patch to libdnet's
  configure.in by Petr Salinger (Petr.Salinger(a)t-systems.cz).

o Tried to update to the latest autoconf only to find that there
  hasn't been a new version in more than two years :(.  I was able to
  find new config.sub and config.guess files at
  http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/config/config/ , so I updated to
  those.

o Fixed a problem with the -e option when run on Windows (or UNIX with
  --send_eth) when run on an ethernet network against an external
  (routed) host.  You would get the message "NmapArpCache() can only
  take IPv4 addresses.  Sorry".  Thanks to KX (kxmail(a)gmail.com) for
  helping to track down the problem.

o Made some changes to allow source port zero scans (-g0).  Nmap used
  to refused to do this, but now it just gives a warning that it may not
  work on all systems.  It seems to work fine on my Linux box.  Thanks
  to Bill Dale (bill_dale(a)bellsouth.net) for suggesting this feature.

o Made a change to libdnet so that Windows interfaces are listed as
  down if they are disconnected, unplugged, or otherwise unavailable.

o Ceased including foreign translations in the Nmap tarball as they
  take up too much space.  HTML versions can be found at
  http://www.insecure.org/nmap/docs.html , while XML and NROFF versions
  are available from http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/man-xlate/ .

o Changed INSTALL and README-WIN32 files to mostly just reference the
  new Nmap Install Guide at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/install/ .

o Included docs/nmap-man.xml in the tarball distribution, which is the
  DocBook XML source for the Nmap man page.  Patches to Nmap that are
  user-visible should include patches to the man page XML source rather
  than to the generated Nroff.

o Fixed Nmap so it doesn't crash when you ask it to resume a previous
  scan, but pass in a bogus file rather than actual Nmap output.  Thanks
  to Piotr Sobolewski (piotr_sobolewski(a)o2.pl) for the fix.

Cheers,
Fyodor



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