Re: DNS broken in 5.21

[Simon John <nmap-dev () the-jedi co uk>]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:03:06 +0100, Till Maas wrote:

> 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.

Yes, the problem there is that distro repo's are usually pretty slow on
releases, so we definitely need Fyodor to continue packaging.

I discovered yesterday that you can't make Fedora9 RPM's on a Fedora12
box, due to the version of rpmlib in F12. I couldn't even rebuild a SRC
RPM from F13 on F9 as F9 seemed to have trouble unpacking the RPM
(probably the same issue). So an F12 box wouldn't make a very good
packaging system - other than for F12

> [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

mwahaha, so it's not just me then ;-)

Simon.

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