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Re: Two ideas for NSE
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:21:16 -0600
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:09:01PM -0400, Michael Pattrick wrote:
I have two ideas for NSE, I will keep these brief for now but based on the response I may flesh this ideas out further. - NSE for Ncat NSE is extremely useful for rapidly writing simple network programs, currently this programmers are attached to the Nmap scanning engine even if they do not benefit from a port scan. NSE for Ncat would allow the same fine grained control but without all the overhead of being reliant on the network scanner. I imagine this would be best implemented by the addition of a new library which would be used by both Ncat and Nmap. Nmap would load the library and then add any Nmap dependent API(such as the Nmap namespace), and Ncat would do the same.
There's a TODO item to allow doing script scanning without port or ping scanning. I needed to run whois.nse against a bunch of IPs without ping scanning them first, and I had to hack the source to do it. Would this capability work for you? 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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- Re: Two ideas for NSE David Fifield (Jul 01)
- Re: Two ideas for NSE Michael Pattrick (Jul 02)
- Re: Two ideas for NSE David Fifield (Jul 02)
- Re: Two ideas for NSE Michael Pattrick (Jul 02)