Re: DNS broken in 5.21

[Till Maas <opensource () till name>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 01:33:53PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:

> That is a good idea on an individual basis to get Nmap, but it sort of
> defautes the purpose our our distributing RPMs in the first place.  If
> our RPMs don't work for all/most people on that platform, we should
> see what we can do to fix it.  Fedora 12 is the latest release of one
> of the most popular Linux distributions, so surely many people here
> are running it.

Imho it's always best to get the distributions to package one's
software and it is obviously a lot easier for e.g. Fedora users to use
the distribution version of Nmap than your rpm, because it is
automatically updated. But your RPM is still useful in case the
distribution version is too old or if there is a distribution that does
not package nmap, yet.

> Can someone (or 3) try the following and send the
> full output to nmap-dev?

I just ran it on a F12 live KVM machine:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:11:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uhv http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.21-1.x86_64.rpm
Retrieving http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.21-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:nmap                   ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost ~]# service nscd stop
Stopping nscd:                                             [FAILED]
[root@localhost ~]# nmap -sP test1.nmap.org

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-31 19:56 EST
Failed to resolve given hostname/IP: test1.nmap.org.  Note that you can't use '/mask' AND '1-4,7,100-' style IP ranges
WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned.
Nmap done: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.04 seconds
[root@localhost ~]# service nscd start
Starting nscd:                                             [  OK  ]
[root@localhost ~]# nmap -sP test1.nmap.org

Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-01-31 19:56 EST
Nmap scan report for test1.nmap.org (64.13.134.48)
Host is up (0.00026s latency).
rDNS record for 64.13.134.48: nmap.org
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.35 seconds

Regards
Till

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