Re: Adding new NSE discovered targets to Nmap

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:06:28AM +0200, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> On 16 aug 2010, at 04.17, Ron wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:00:25 -0700 Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> > > So if setting this enables a useful script to work, and we
> > > don't identify any problems with using the flag, then we might just
> > > set it in all cases rather than provide it as an optional function.
> >
> > I suspect that, with the new prerule scripts, broadcasting is
> > going to become rather common.
>
> I agree, I can think of a handful scripts that could use this.
> Unfortunately, like I wrote in [1] I don't think changing this alone
> will allow the scripts to work.

I agree as well.  We need to figure out how to make this work for a
useful script, then we can check the broadcast change in along with
the new script.  As Patrik notes, we still have a problem with
receiving responses in some cases.  Maybe someone can look at what API
calls the real dhclient and "ping -b" applications use.

Cheers,
Fyodor

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