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Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute)
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:30:49 -0600
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:57 PM, David Fifield wrote:On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:28:29PM +0100, Fredrik Pettai wrote:I've noted two problems that has surfaced in between the release of nmap 5.00 (2009-07-15) -> 5.10BETA1 (2009-11-23). First one, traceroute doesn't work any more on *BSD system. I've verified this on NetBSD, Mac OS X (I haven't verified OpenBSD, but this probably broken there as well). FreeBSD status is unknown.Thanks for taking the time to report this. Please post the output that you see. Make sure to run Nmap with the -d option to get debugging output. I tested just now and traceroute works for me on OS X (with the latest SVN version; I didn't test 5.10BETA1).I haven't tested the SVN version but 5.21 still fails both for NetBSD and MacOSX (Leopard). I started with 5.21 first on both platforms and backed back as long as I could towards 5.00 where the problems wheren't present. (I used the released tarballs, hence I noted that it was present in 5.10BETA1). Here is debug output from a NetBSD host: -bash-4.0$ nmap -d --traceroute ping.sunet.se Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-03-23 18:05 CET Warning: Traceroute does not support idle or connect scan, disabling... PORTS: Using top 1000 ports found open (TCP:1000, UDP:0, SCTP:0)
The answer here is the line "Warning: Traceroute does not support idle or connect scan, disabling...". Traceroute needs to be run as root. This has surprised me more than once too. Maybe we should treat this as a fatal error, just like when someone asks for -O as a non-root user? $ nmap -O localhost TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires root privileges. QUITTING! David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) Kris Katterjohn (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) Patrik Karlsson (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) David Fifield (Mar 23)
- Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute) Fredrik Pettai (Mar 23)