Re: Quake 3 query script submission

[Mak Kolybabi <mak () kolybabi com>]

On 2010-01-17 23:26, Fyodor wrote:
> Nice work, Mak! Have you thought about dropping the MASTERS list and always
> querying the open ports on target machines directly? If Nmap version detection
> does not detect these games, perhaps a new probe and match lines (see
> http://nmap.org/book/vscan.html) are in order to do so. And once the service
> is detected, unless I'm missing something (I only did a quick browse of the
> script) you should be able to query it with your query() function in the way
> you do now. That is the approach Nmap takes in similar cases, and it avoids
> having millions of Nmap users bang on ghdigital.com and other 3rd party
> servers.

Okay, thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into version detection/probes instead
of using the master servers.

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Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak)
<mak () kolybabi com>

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