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Re: Nmap summarizing function results in not all ports being displayed
From: jayrhine () comcast net
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:59:17 +0000
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:57:44PM +0000, jayrhine () comcast net wrote:Myself and others have had the issue in the past that when performing scans with Nmap on systems that have many open udp ports, the port details will not be displayed. This does not usually affect tcp ports since they will typically be discovered as open (which is always reported). However, since UDP usually reports open ports as "open|filtered", this may result in ports not being displayed. Now, I understand this is not a bug, but rather a design choice, but I think it would be beneficial to may this adjustable.OK Jay. I've checked in a change to svn so that if verbose mode is at least 3 or debugging level is at least three, Nmap will show all of the open|filtered ports rather than collapse them for readability. You can test it with the command "nmap -sU -T4 -vvv scanme.nmap.org".
Thanks! I've checked it out, and this works fine for me. I'll be watching for the next nmap release to have this incorporated into the official nmap distribution. I would request that the Output section of the Nmap reference guide to be updated to explain the effects of the verbosity (and debugging) on ports displayed in the output. Specifcally, that is that: 1) An entry for each "open" port will always be displayed 2) For all other types, if more than 25 ports are detected, the results will be summarized unless higher verbosity is specified. 2) If verbosity >= 3 (i.e, -vvv), than an entry for each "open|filtered" will be displayed. 3) For all other port types, if there are more discovered ports than 25 times the verbosity level then the results will be summarized. 4) For debugging, -d changes the limit to 500, -d2 1000, and -d3 will always show every state of every port. Thanks for all of your hard work making Nmap a great tool! Jay _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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