Re: nmap errors on *BSDs (noted on NetBSD and MacOSX, so far) (traceroute)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 12:30 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> I can't currently think of any objections to this.  Other things bail when
> root or IPv6 support is needed but unavailable, so this had might as well too
> (especially if something post port scan like OS detection does it as you
> mentioned).

I committed it in r17039.

David Fifield
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