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Nmap 4.20ALPHA8: OS DB still growing!
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:25:08 -0700
Hi Everyone. I am pleased to announce Nmap 4.20ALPHA8, which has more OS signatures and other improvements. Here is how the OS2 DB is doing comparatively: Synscan (0.1): 25 signatures Nmap Gen2 (4.20ALPHA8): 56 signatures SinFP (2.02): about 100 signatures Xprobe2 (0.3): 225 signatures Nmap Gen1 (4.20ALPHA8): 1,680 signatures As you can see, we're making good progress, but still have a way to go. Once we get a critical mass of maybe 200 signatures, I don't think we'll have to worry about it so much any more. So please keep those submissions coming! Besides submitting new signatures, corrections are also quite helpful. I have added fingerprint correction instructions (it is very easy) to http://insecure.org/nmap/submit/ . Here are the changes in 4.20ALPHA8: o Integrated the newly submitted OS fingerprints. The DB now contains 56, up 33% from 42 in ALPHA7. Please keep them coming! We still only have 3.33% as many signatures as the gen1 database. o Nmap 2nd generation OS detection now has a more sophisticated mechanism for guessing a target OS when there is no exact match in the database (see http://insecure.org/nmap/osdetect/osdetect-guess.html ) o Rewrote mswin32/nmap.rc to remove cruft and hopefully reduce some MFC-related compilation problems we've seen. Thanks to KX (kxmail(a)gmail.com) for doing this. o NmapFE now uses a spin button for verbosity and debugging options so that you can specify whatever verbosity (-v) or debugging (-d) level you desire. The --randomize-hosts option was also added to NmapFE. Thanks to Kris Katterjohn for the patches. o A dozen or so small patches to Nmap and NmapFE by Kris Katterjohn. o Removed libpcap/Win32 and libpcap/msdos as Nmap doesn't use them. This reduces the Nmap tar.bz2 by about 50K. Thanks to Kris Katterjohn for the suggestion. And here are the goods: http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8.tar.bz2 http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8-setup.exe http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8-win32.zip http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8-1.src.rpm http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8-1.i386.rpm http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.20ALPHA8-1.i386.rpm http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8-1.x86_64.rpm http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.20ALPHA8-1.x86_64.rpm http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20ALPHA8.tgz Please let nmap-dev know if you encounter any problems! Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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