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Re: --resume and scanning (Windows) localhost quirks
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:57:58 -0700
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:10:48PM -0000, Rob Nicholls wrote:
Following on from my previous email about getting --resume to "work" on Windows (i.e. nmap no longer displays the pfatal message)... Has anyone else been able to get --resume to do anything useful? I've tried RC7 (with my change) on Windows and 4.21ALPHA3 on Linux; nmap doesn't appear to write anything to the output file until it's finished scanning everything, which makes --resume seem a little bit pointless. Is there a "special" way I'm supposed to abort the scan? If you try --resume against a completed output file, you see something like:nmap --resume testresumeUnable to parse ip (Intel) supposed log file testresume. Sorry QUITTING! I've even tried editing the output file to fool it into thinking it's halfway through a scan, but all I get is: Unable to parse supposed log file testresume_edited. Sorry QUITTING!
Nmap scans hosts in big groups and writes output for an entire group all at once when it is finished. Maybe you're not scanning enough hosts at once to make --resume useful. The size of a scan group varies with scan type and number of probes, but it should be about 30. You can try out smaller scan group sizes with something like --max-hostgroup 4; then you should get a resumable log file sooner. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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