Re: Nmap failed for 10.255.255.255

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 10:12:48AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> > On Sep 9, 2010 4:03 AM, "N K" <nk.exfo () yahoo com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am facing one problem in using nmap for windows.
> > When I query for IP 10.255.255.255 then it quits -
> >
> > nmap 10.255.255.255
> > Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2010-09-09 14:25 India Standard
> > Time
> > nexthost: Failed to determine dst MAC address for target 10.255.255.255
> > QUITTING!
> >
> > on the other hand for this IP it works well on Linux using nmap command.
> >
> > Could anyone please provide me solution on this.
>
> Try this.
>
> Use nmap --iflist to figure out which interface the traffic should go
> through and then use nmap -e {interface} to force nmap to use that
> interface.

Please also try the latest version, 5.35DC1, from
http://nmap.org/download.html#windows. If that doesn't work, please send
the output of "nmap --iflist".

Sometimes Windows will refuse to send to addresses like 10.255.255.255,
but that should only apply to connect scan, not to SYN scan.

David Fifield
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