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Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap?
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:54:34 -0500
The idea of keeping the lower-cased notation for nmap output and places where nmap output is directly referenced while using the proper upper-cased notation when speaking about a protocol in general sounds good to me. Nmap calls a port that seems to be listening with an SSH server 'ssh' When nmap finds something that looks like a secure HTTP server, it sticks an 'ssl' in there because it might not be HTTPS. I like to think of what nmap displays as a best guess and therefore not tied to syntactic rules of upper / lower. In the same vein, I don't see why 'domain' needs to be changed to 'dns'. That really depends on why you chose to have 'domain' there in the first place. Does that reason no longer exist? -Jason On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Fyodor <> wrote:
In my upcoming Nmap book, I've been rather torn about how to capitalize various service names. On the one hand, acronyms such as DNS, SMTP, and VoIP arguably look better when "properly" capitalized. On the other hand, Nmap uses so many service names that the approach leads to lots of capitalization all over the page. In addition, they are always lowercase in Nmap output (at least in the port table). And readers often get confused/annoyed when I use lowercase when quoting Nmap directly, but then capitalize a term differently in the next sentence. I was thinking of using this as an excuse to keep them all lowercase in the book. But maybe I should just capitalize them in Nmap instead. Which of these port tables do you like better? [Current scan of scanme.nmap.org] PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 4.3 (protocol 2.0) 25/tcp closed smtp 53/tcp open domain ISC BIND 9.3.4 70/tcp closed gopher 80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.2.2 ((Fedora)) 113/tcp closed auth [scan of same, but capitalize acronyms] PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open SSH OpenSSH 4.3 (protocol 2.0) 25/tcp closed SMTP 53/tcp open domain ISC BIND 9.3.4 70/tcp closed gopher 80/tcp open HTTP Apache httpd 2.2.2 ((Fedora)) 113/tcp closed auth Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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Current thread:
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap?, (continued)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Kris Katterjohn (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Michael Pattrick (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Brandon Enright (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Fyodor (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Max (Aug 18)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? jah (Aug 18)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Daniel Roethlisberger (Aug 22)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Kris Katterjohn (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? RB (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? Patrick Donnelly (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? sara fink (Aug 17)
- Re: Service name capitalization in Nmap? DePriest, Jason R. (Aug 18)