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Re: Problem while running nmap as root
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:23:42 -0600
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:43:18AM -0400, Colin Beckingham wrote:
# nmap -n -sP -d3 scanme.nmap.org Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-09 10:37 EDT The max # of sockets we are using is: 0 --------------- Timing report --------------- hostgroups: min 1, max 100000 rtt-timeouts: init 1000, min 100, max 10000 max-scan-delay: TCP 1000, UDP 1000, SCTP 1000 parallelism: min 0, max 0 max-retries: 10, host-timeout: 0 min-rate: 0, max-rate: 0 --------------------------------------------- Initiating Ping Scan at 10:37 Scanning scanme.nmap.org (64.13.134.52) [4 ports] pcap_open_live(eth0, 100, 0, 200) FAILED. Reported error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol. Will wait 5 seconds then retry. pcap_open_live(eth0, 100, 0, 200) FAILED. Reported error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol. Will wait 25 seconds then retry. ... then subsequent output as in above re af_packet and SOCK_PACKET # nmap -iflist Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-08-09 10:39 EDT ************************INTERFACES************************ DEV (SHORT) IP/MASK TYPE UP MAC lo (lo) 127.0.0.1/8 loopback up lo (lo) 127.0.0.2/8 loopback up eth0 (eth0) 192.168.0.101/24 ethernet up 00:02:55:BF:11:5C **************************ROUTES************************** DST/MASK DEV GATEWAY 192.168.0.0/0 eth0 169.254.0.0/0 eth0 127.0.0.0/0 lo 0.0.0.0/0 eth0 192.168.0.1 # nmap -V Nmap version 5.21 ( http://nmap.org )
I can't reproduce this on OpenSUSE 11.2, running in QEMU, with either Nmap 5.21 or 5.31DC18. Are you running in a virtualization environment or anything else weird? I found a couple references of this happening on SUSE with a much older release of Nmap (3.30). http://www.rapid7.com/vulndb/lookup/linuxrpm-suse-nmap-3.30-70-90_i386 http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/suse-security/2004/01/msg00501.html They made a patched release that fixed it, but that release has been removed from their public FTP server so I can't find out what they did. (Search removed-find-ls.txt.bz2 for "3.30-70".) http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/deleted-20070817/README.txt http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/deleted-20070817/removed-find-ls.txt.bz2 Here is a recent message saying the same thing happens with iftop. http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse/2010-01/msg00548.html Do you get the same error if you use iftop, tcpdump, or other programs that use libpcap? David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Problem while running nmap as root priyank garg (Aug 04)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root Tom Sellers (Aug 04)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root priyank garg (Aug 05)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root David Fifield (Aug 05)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root priyank garg (Aug 05)
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- Re: Problem while running nmap as root Colin Beckingham (Aug 06)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root priyank garg (Aug 08)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root David Fifield (Aug 09)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root Colin Beckingham (Aug 09)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root David Fifield (Aug 16)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root Colin Beckingham (Aug 17)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root David Fifield (Aug 17)
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- Re: Problem while running nmap as root David Fifield (Aug 23)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root priyank garg (Aug 08)
- Re: Problem while running nmap as root Tom Sellers (Aug 04)