Re: [NSE] ASN made more robust and documented - much more to do.

["Michael Pattrick" <mpattrick () rhinovirus org>]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > I was exploring the possibility of using the nmap zone and then, when it
> > is difficult to determine which is the answer containing the origin ASN,
> > sending a query for the origin zone to confirm.  I decided that doing
> > this was alot of work for such a simple script and decided not to use
> > the nmap zone.
>
> You're right. There's no reason to query the nmap zone and then the
> origin zone as a backup if the origin and peer zones give all the
> required information. The nmap zone gives ambiguous results sometimes.
> Perhaps Michael's email will get it fixed; I think that's the best
> option.

Responding with amazing speed, Team Cymru says:

These should really be in separate zones... I went ahead and put the peer
data in peer-nmap instead.

There is also an Ipv6 zone:
nmap6
peer-nmap6 - does not exist at this time

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This should fix the problem and we got an extra feature out of it,
double plus good!

Cheers,
Michael

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